Today I learned that the word TARE found on railway wagons and shipping containers comes from an Arabic word  طَرْح  ṭarḥ meaning “deduction” or “that which is removed”. The word refers to the unladen weight of a cargo van, vessel or container, and its use in English dates back to the reign of King Henry VII at the end of the 15th century.

A TARE weight is subtracted from the value recorded on a weighbridge to calculate the actual weight of the cargo for customs or shipping charges.

The photo is of a “Cavell Van” a type of railway parcel van, so named because it was famously used to transport the body of nurse Edith Cavell from Belgium back to Britain in 1919.

https://kesr.org.uk/the-cavell-van/

12 minutes ago, toucana said:

Today I learned that the word TARE found on railway wagons and shipping containers comes from an Arabic word  طَرْح  ṭarḥ meaning “deduction” or “that which is removed”. The word refers to the unladen weight of a cargo van, vessel or container, and its use in English dates back to the reign of King Henry VII at the end of the 15th century.

A TARE weight is subtracted from the value recorded on a weighbridge to calculate the actual weight of the cargo for customs or shipping charges.

You will also find Tare in many places today for instance on modern digitql scales.

When making bread I put the mixing bowl on the scales and press the Tare function to 'zero things before adding the ingredients.

Today I learned that Studiot bakes bread ...

16 hours ago, toucana said:

Today I learned that the word TARE found on railway wagons and shipping containers comes from an Arabic word  طَرْح  ṭarḥ meaning “deduction” or “that which is removed”. The word refers to the unladen weight of a cargo van, vessel or container, and its use in English dates back to the reign of King Henry VII at the end of the 15th century.

A TARE weight is subtracted from the value recorded on a weighbridge to calculate the actual weight of the cargo for customs or shipping charges.

The photo is of a “Cavell Van” a type of railway parcel van, so named because it was famously used to transport the body of nurse Edith Cavell from Belgium back to Britain in 1919.

https://kesr.org.uk/the-cavell-van/

TIL
You carry just 1 dead body, and that's all you get remembered for.

TIL the curious fact that although power function can be formally defined from multiplication, the multiplication cannot be formally defined from addition and thus has to be added to axioms, if needed.

3 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

TIL
You carry just 1 dead body, and that's all you get remembered for.

LOL. If you have a string of several Cavell vans, it's a Cavell-cade.

Cool. It's often hard to define basic concepts without lapsing into tautologies. I've seen this also with definitions of time.

TIL what all these tiny islands are near the Strait of Hormuz.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-islands-strait-hormuz-oil-trump-1b3e770e61c6a05d3e078223e15b20b2

I had definitely not heard of Greater and Lesser Tunb.