tyre
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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 formsEdit
- (US) tire
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- 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.
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VerbEdit
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, number 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 2Edit
Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.
NounEdit
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 3Edit
Possibly a shortening of attire.
NounEdit
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
VerbEdit
tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
ReferencesEdit
- “tyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- tyne [tynɛ] (Gheg)
AdjectiveEdit
i tyre m (feminine e tyre, m plural e tyre, f plural e tyre)
DeclensionEdit
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 alsoEdit
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Derived from the noun tyr (“bull”).
VerbEdit
tyre (imperative tyr, infinitive at tyre, present tense tyrer, past tense tyrede, perfect tense har tyret)
InflectionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
tyre c
- indefinite plural of tyr
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse tyr(v)i n, from Proto-Germanic *terwią.
NounEdit
tyre m or n (definite singular tyren or tyret, indefinite plural tyrar or tyre, definite plural tyrane or tyra)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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