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  tyre

  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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Bushby is well versed in overcoming physical barriers, such as a flat tyre.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

"There's so many people, from the timber company, to the tyre company, to a friend who makes our banners, to everyone else who has chipped in, lending us instruments, donating costumes," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Phil Barnes KC, prosecuting, told the jury that many of them would know what it feels like to drive "with a flat tyre, or with wheels that are slightly out of balance or misaligned".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In F1 these days, only Alonso and Lewis Hamilton survive from the days when the drivers could push flat out throughout a grand prix with no concerns about tyre management.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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 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

Ghazi was handed over at the Naqoura crossing before being taken to an army intelligence facility in Tyre for a medical examination.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Another correspondent in the coastal city of Sidon, further north, saw displaced people arriving from Tyre, some with belongings strapped to the roofs of their cars.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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

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

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

So being wearied with the weight of our burthens, and well nigh tyred with long travell, having lost three of our soldiers, we are come home with these present cheats.

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

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

And being wrought quite tyred, they began to accuse and grumble at one another for having been the occasion of all this toil.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Robert Knox

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."

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

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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