tyre
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and most current and former Commonwealth nations after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there.
Alternative forms[edit]
- (US) tire
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tyre (plural tyres) (British spelling, Irish, most current and former Commonwealth nations spelling)
- The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
- The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle.
- 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.
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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 (issues 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.
- 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)
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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 1:
- 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams[edit]
Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- tyne [tynɛ] (Gheg)
Adjective[edit]
i tyre m (feminine e tyre, m plural e tyre, f plural e tyre)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |
nominative | i tyre | e tyre | e tyre | e tyre |
accusative | e tyre | e tyre | e tyre | e tyre |
genitive/dative/ablative | të tyre | së tyre | të tyre | të tyre |
See also[edit]
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]
Noun[edit]
tyre m or n (definite singular tyren or tyret, indefinite plural tyrar or tyre, definite plural tyrane or tyra)
Anagrams[edit]
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- English words ending in "-yre"
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