Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To adorn or attire.
- noun Attire.
- noun A headband or headdress.
- noun A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with compressed air.
- noun A hoop of metal or rubber fitted around a wheel.
- intransitive verb To lose energy or strength; grow weary.
- intransitive verb To grow bored or impatient.
- intransitive verb To diminish the energy or strength; fatigue.
- intransitive verb To exhaust the interest or patience of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The feeling of being tired; a sensation of physical or mental fatigue.
- To draw; pull; drag.
- To pull apart or to pieces; rend and devour; prey upon.
- To engage in pulling or tearing or rending; raven; prey: used especially in falconry of hawks pouncing upon their prey, and in analogous figurative applications.
- Hence To be earnestly engaged; dwell; dote; gloat.
- To adorn; attire; dress. See
attire . - To prepare or equip for; make ready; setup.
- To become weary, fatigued, or jaded; have the strength or the patience reduced or exhausted.
- To make weary, weaken, or exhaust by exertion; fatigue; weary: used with reference to physical effect from either physical or mental strain.
- To exhaust the attention or the patience of, as with dullness or tediousness; satiate, sicken, or cause repugnance in, as by excessive supply or continuance; glut.
- Synonyms Tire, Fatigue, Weary, Jade. These words are primarily physical, and are in the order of strength. One may become tired simply by standing still, or fatigued by a little over-exertion. Fatigue suggests something of exhanstion or inability to continue exertion : as, fatigued with running. Weary implies protracted exertion or strain gradually wearing out one's strength. Jade implies the repetition of the same sort of exertion: as, a horse will become jaded sooner by driving on a dead level than if he occasionally has a hill to climb. All these words have a figurative application to the mind corresponding to their physical meaning. See
fatigue , n., and wearisome. - noun A train or series.
- noun A row; rank; course; tier; especially, a row of guns; a battery.
- noun A stroke; hit.
- noun A head-dress. See
tiara . - noun Attire; dress.
- noun Furniture; apparatus; machinery.
- noun A bitter drink or liquor.
- noun A continuous band of metal or other substance placed around a wheel to form the tread.
- To put a tire upon; furnish with tires: as, to
tire a wheel or a wagon. Alsotyre . - noun See
tier , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A tier, row, or rank. See
tier . - transitive verb obsolete To adorn; to attire; to dress.
- intransitive verb obsolete To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
- intransitive verb obsolete To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
- transitive verb To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.
- transitive verb to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.
- noun Archaic Attire; apparel.
- noun A covering for the head; a headdress.
- noun A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
- noun obsolete Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
- noun A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled
tyre . - intransitive verb To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Accoutrements ,accessories . - noun obsolete
Dress ,clothes ,attire . - noun Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a
railroad locomotive . - noun The rubber covering on a wheel; a
tyre - verb transitive, obsolete To
dress oradorn . - verb obsolete To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
- verb obsolete To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
- verb intransitive To become
sleepy orweary .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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He winds up in rural Lillehammer, Norway, site of the 1994 Winter Olympic showdown between Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan the only linkage one could dream up might be the term "tire iron".
The Short List: Steven Van Zandt Goes to Norway in 'Lilyhammer' 2012
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Because the tire is very unusual, none was available in Guadalajara, Morelia, or Mexico City.
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If ye have a flat, keep on driving, the price of a tire is not worth the lives fixing a flat, as hi speed crashes are the norm, on June 15, 2009 at 7: 44 pm uphilldowndale
Kent Officer Dies Dealing With Road Crash « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Severe internal tire damage or outright tire failure can occur when an underinflated tire is driven at typical highway speeds.
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But believe me, a spare tire is only accentuated by the cut of these jackets.
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Because the tire is very unusual, none was available in Guadalajara, Morelia, or Mexico City.
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The goal of this tire is to bite into loose or muddy surface areas for maximum traction and propel the vehicle forward.
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Imagine being a kid of six, not particularly tall, struggling through a foot of snow and looking like the Michelin tire man.
Hated Winter: From Snow to Rainforest « Colleen Anderson 2010
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Because the tire is very unusual, none was available in Guadalajara, Morelia, or Mexico City.
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The book series that I could read over and over again and never tire is the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward.
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 1 day to go! Nalini Singh 2009
oroboros commented on the word tire
TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
April 8, 2008