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

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The boy had been with his father, who was getting his motorcycle tyre pumped up at the mechanic's shop.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

Across the extreme tip of his middle finger, he saw now as he lifted that hand, a faint sixteenth of an inch of black tread where tyre had touched in passing.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 John Fletcher

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.

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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