tyre
English
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Etymology 1
[edit]Attested in the sense “rim of a wheel” since ca. 1500. Generally considered to be a use of Middle English tir(e), a clipped byform of atir (“equipment, furnishings, ornament”), whence modern attire. A less accepted theory derives it from the verb to tie. The spelling tyre was predominant in the 16th century, but largely gave way to tire in the 17th and 18th, before it was revived again outside North America in the 19th century.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /taɪə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
- Homophones: tier, tire
Noun
[edit]tyre (plural tyres) (British spelling, Ireland, most of Commonwealth)
- The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
- pneumatic tyres
- runflat tyres
- The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.
- Coordinate term: strakes
- iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse
- tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings
- 1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:
- It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]wheel covering
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Verb
[edit]tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
- (transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
- 1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552:
- The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.
Noun
[edit]tyre (uncountable)
- (India) Curdled milk.
- 1809, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, […] [1], page 954:
- The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.
Etymology 3
[edit]Possibly a shortening of attire.
Noun
[edit]tyre (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Attire.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre
Verb
[edit]tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
References
[edit]- “tyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- tyne [tynɛ] (Gheg)
Determiner
[edit]i tyre m (feminine e tyre, masculine plural e tyre, feminine plural e tyre)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |
| nominative | i tyre | e tyre | e tyre | e tyre |
| accusative | e tyre | e tyre | e tyre | e tyre |
| dative/ablative | të tyre | së tyre | të tyre | të tyre |
See also
[edit]| determiners | pronouns | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | |||
| 1st person | im | ynë | imi | yni | ||
| 2nd person | yt | juaj | yti | juaji | ||
| 3rd person | m | i tij | i tyre | i tiji | i tyri | |
| f | i saj | i saji | ||||
| 3rd person reflexive | i vet | i veti | ||||
Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Derived from the noun tyr (“bull”).
Verb
[edit]tyre (imperative tyr, infinitive at tyre, present tense tyrer, past tense tyrede, perfect tense har tyret)
Inflection
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]tyre c
- indefinite plural of tyr
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse tyr(v)i n, from Proto-Germanic *terwią. Compare Swedish törve. Probably related to tjære.
Noun
[edit]tyre m or n (definite singular tyren or tyret, indefinite plural tyrar or tyre, definite plural tyrane or tyra)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “tyre”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
- “tyre” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
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