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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With tyre and energy management, that is no longer the case.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
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
Prospects for the race are uncertain because tyre degradation is even higher than expected on a track which is always tough for tyres.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
In the beachside city of Tyre, 40-year-old Hussein Hassan told AFP he had fled with his family to north Lebanon during the war but returned this week to reopen his barbershop.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 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
The Lebanese health ministry said eight people were killed in Tyre, where the Israeli military issued a new order for residents to leave the southern city, including its Christian quarter for the first time.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
On Sunday, the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for most of Tyre and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 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
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.
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 Adlington, William, fl. 1566
Do they know any thing but a tyred hackney?
From The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother by Fletcher, John
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 Woodhouse, Frederick W.
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."
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