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Singular
tyre
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Plural
tyres
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tyre (plural tyres)
- (Australian, Irish, New Zealand, British) The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
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Tyre is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British / Commonwealth spelling.
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wheel covering
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- Italian: gomma it(it) m., pneumatico it(it) m.
- Japanese: タイヤ ja(ja) (taiya)
- Korean: 타이어 (taieo)
- Macedonian: гума mk(mk) (gúma) f., автомобилска гума mk(mk) (avtomobílska gúma)
- Norwegian: dekk no(no)
- Polish: opona pl(pl) f.
- Portuguese: pneu pt(pt) m.
- Romanian: pneu ro(ro) n., cauciuc ro(ro) n.
- Russian: автомобильная шина ru(ru)
- Slovene: pnevmatika sl(sl) f., obroč sl(sl) m.
- Spanish: neumático es(es) m. (especially Chile and Spain - formal usage in other countries), caucho es(es) m. (Venezuela), cubierta es(es) f. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), goma f. (Caribbean Islands), llanta es(es) f. (Latin America), rueda es(es) f. (Spain)
- Swahili: gurudumu sw(sw)
- Swedish: däck sv(sv)
- Thai: ยางรถยนต์ th(th)
- Ukrainian: шина uk(uk)
- Vietnamese: vỏ vi(vi)
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