tyre
noun
tire.
tyre
1 American
[tahyuhr]
/ taɪər /
noun
British.
tyred,
tyring
Tyre
2
American
[tahyuhr]
/ taɪər /
noun
tyre
1
British
/ ˈtaɪə /
noun
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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
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a ring of wear-resisting steel shrunk thermally onto a cast-iron railway wheel
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a metal band or hoop attached to the rim of a wooden cartwheel
verb
Tyre
2
British
/ ˈtaɪə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of tyre
C18: variant of C15 tire, probably from tire ³
Example Sentences
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Hamilton hit the mechanic on the front right tyre as he accelerated away, immediately radioing to check he was OK, which was confirmed by the team.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting," a fellow passenger told Radio Thessaloniki.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Antonelli's problems left Leclerc clear out front and Verstappen and Russell, with a tyre advantage, closing on Hamilton in a battle for the podium positions.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Continental, which has been struggling amid a crisis in the wider European auto sector, has been slimming down its operations to focus on its traditional tyre business.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
He took his weight off the car, turned and pressed a foot against the front tyre as though to test it.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
The strikes triggered a wave of displacement, with families filling cars with their belongings and heading towards Tyre, the largest city in the south, Madihli said.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The exhibition also includes an old photograph of the coastal city of Tyre, a black-and-white video of Nabatieh, and notebooks in which visitors wrote down their memories of the south.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
On Tuesday, Israel ramped up strikes on Tyre, a city that before the war was home to about 100,000 people and considered southern Lebanon’s economic heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
On Sunday, the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for most of Tyre and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
When Mark Antony landed at the city of Tyre on the Mediterranean coast, reports from the battlefield revealed a bad situation.
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
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
Here lyes an old toss'd Tennis Ball Was racketted, from spring to fall, With so much heat and so much hast, Time's arm for shame grew tyred at last.
From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse
With which companions we did frequently discourse; and in the cool of the Evening walk abroad in the Fields for a refreshing, tyred with being all day in our House or Prison.
Coniecture the rest, my words sticke fast in the mire and are cleane tyred, would I had neuer vndertooke this tragicall tale.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
I'm just tyring to get an out,''; Millwood explained.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2012
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."
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)
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