What does "tyre" mean?
The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
Tyre
name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
- Grammar: tyre is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: tire, slicks, tires.
- Usage evidence: A nail penetrated the car tyre.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
"pneumatic tyres"
- 2 Curdled milk. India, uncountable
"The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk."
- 3 Attire. obsolete, uncountable
"And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre"
- 4 hoop that covers a wheel wordnet
- 5 The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.
"iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse"
Verb
- 1 To fit tyres to (a vehicle). transitive
"The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way."
- 2 To adorn. obsolete
Proper Noun
- 1 A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
- 2 A surname
- 3 An unincorporated community in Austin Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States, named after the biblical Tyre.
- 4 A male given name.
- 5 A town and hamlet therein, in Seneca County, New York, United States, named after Tyre, Lebanon.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"A nail penetrated the car tyre."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "tyre"?
Common synonyms include: tire, slicks, tires.
How do you use "tyre" in a sentence?
A nail penetrated the car tyre.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Attested in the sense “rim of a wheel” since ca. 1500. Generally considered to be a use of Middle English tir(e), a clipped byform of atir (“equipment, furnishings, ornament”), whence modern attire. A less accepted theory derives it from the verb to tie. The spelling tyre was predominant in the 16th century, but largely gave way to tire in the 17th and 18th, before it was revived again outside North America in the 19th century.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.
Etymology 3
Possibly a shortening of attire.
Etymology 4
From Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr /Ṣur/, “rock”) (), after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. Compare Aramaic טוּרָא / ܛܘܪܐ (ṭūrā, “mountain, high territory”), Akkadian 𒌷𒀫𒊒 (ᵁᴿᵁṣur-ru /Ṣurru/), Tarifit aẓru (“rock”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵥⵔⵓ (aẓru, “stone”), Proto-Semitic *ṯ̣Vrr- (“flint”). Cognate to Arabic صُور (ṣūr), Hebrew צוֹר (Tzor), Tiberian Hebrew צר (Ṣōr), Turkish Sur.