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[the first ‘tear’ rhymes with “clear” or “beer”, and the second ‘tear’ and ‘tare’ rhyme with “bare” or “care”]
“Tear” (noun & rhymes with ‘clear’ or ‘beer’) is ‘a drop of salty liquid, looks like water, that comes out of one’s eyes when one is crying or laughing too much, or when one’s eyes smart from smoke or fumes’,
a drop of tear/a teardrop
e.g.
When she came to know of her bad test result, she cried, and tears ran down her cheeks.
When her manager chided her, she burst into tears.
He said that his tears were out of joy, but not out of grief.
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“Tear”, as a verb, it rhymes with “bare” or “care”, ~~~ tear – tore – torn – tearing , and is ‘to cut something, such as a pieces of paper, cloth, etc. with some sharp object or by hand; to damage something by pulling it apart or by cutting it into pieces; to pull something or someone, or oneself, away from something or someone else forcefully; to make a hole or a cut in something; to go away from a place or somebody suddenly and quickly’; as a noun, it is ‘a hole or a small cut in something usually made accidentally’,
tearing a piece of paper
e.g.
The boy was told not to tear any pieces of paper from his notebook. [‘tear’ – verb]
The sheets of paper in this old book tear easily. [‘tear’ – verb]
There is a huge tear in the back of her skirt. [‘tear’ – noun]
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“Tare” (noun & rhymes with the second ‘tear’ which in turn rhymes with ‘bare’ or ‘care’) is ‘{also called unladen weight} the weight of the wrapping (coverings) material in which the actual thing is packed; the weight of an empty or unloaded vehicle, such as lorry, van, truck, in order to calculate the weight of the things/goods in it; a leg and groin protector (guard) used by Japanese martial artists; a Japanese sauce; a nitrogen fixing leguminous plant’,
tare weight balance
e.g.
All the goods-carrying vehicles must keep records of tare weight and net weight when on the road. [i.e. the weight of the vehicle without the load and the weight of the vehicle after the loading]
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