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  noun

  tire.
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  Tyre

  noun

  an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.

tyre

¹ American  

[tahy^uhr] / taɪər /

noun

British.

tyred, tyring

1. tire.

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Tyre ² American  

[tahy^uhr] / taɪər /

noun

1. an ancient seaport of Phoenicia: one of the great cities of antiquity, famous for its navigators and traders; site of modern Sur.

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tyre ¹ British  

/ ˈtaɪə /

noun

1. a rubber ring placed over the rim of a wheel of a road vehicle to provide traction and reduce road shocks, esp a hollow inflated ring ( pneumatic tyre ) consisting of a reinforced outer casing enclosing an inner tube See also tubeless tyre cross-ply radial-ply

2. a ring of wear-resisting steel shrunk thermally onto a cast-iron railway wheel

3. a metal band or hoop attached to the rim of a wooden cartwheel

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verb

1. (tr) to fit a tyre or tyres to (a wheel, vehicle, etc)

Tyre ² British  

/ ˈtaɪə /

noun

1. Arabic name: Sur. a port in S Lebanon, on the Mediterranean: founded about the 15th century _bc ; for centuries a major Phoenician seaport, famous for silks and its Tyrian-purple dye; now a small market town. Pop: 141 000 (2005 est)

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Etymology

Origin of tyre

C18: variant of C15 tire, probably from _tire ³

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Example Sentences

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"When I finally saw the size of it, everyone started gathering round. It was like a car tyre in the net."

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

That followed a dispute between Ocon and race engineer Laura Mueller about tyre choices during second practice.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Later in the race, Leclerc's lock-up after the red flag left him battling a flat spot on his tyre, and he was pressured heavily by McLaren's Lando Norris.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

I am regularly baffled by teams' tyre strategies, but Ferrari's in Singapore was the worst in recent years.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Kingshaw kicked the side of the huge tyre.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

Tyre said DNA testing also confirmed the four bears were not involved in a 2025 attack on a school group also in the Bella Coola area.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

The German tire maker sold MyCar Tyre & Auto to Tuhu at an enterprise value of $403 million and Citi doesn’t expect any material tax or transaction cost impact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Lebanese media reported fresh Israeli strikes elsewhere in the south on Thursday, including Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Mansouri in the Tyre district.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

An NNA journalist had also reported drones flying over the Tyre area, while an AFP correspondent heard continuous artillery shelling in the southern town of Nabatieh.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

In Tyre, Mark Antony received a letter from his wife, Fulvia.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

You'll never get tyred of watching it … Guardian Viral Video Chart.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

Hast thee, O fayrest planet, to thy home, Within the Westerne fome: Thy tyred steedes long since have need of rest.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

Tew tyred to eat, tew; and the water hyar is regularly pisen; hev you-all seen it?

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst

Which—for my Muse herselfe now tyred has, Unto another tale I’ll overpas.’”

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

The big, ungainly looking wheels were at first laughed at, but when pneumatic tyred machines won race after race, they became the rage.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane

I'm just tyring to get an out,''; Millwood explained.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2012

This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our tyring house, and we will do it in action, as we will do it before the Duke.

From A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

On Wednesday the curtain fell on the most gorgeous and successful Pageant ever enacted—a Pageant in which all the nations of the earth played a part, with the Crystal Palace for their "tyring house."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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