tyre
Meanings
noun
- The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
- 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.
verb
- To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
noun
- Curdled milk.
noun
- Attire.
verb
- To adorn.
name
- 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.
- An unincorporated community in Austin Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States, named after the biblical Tyre.
- A town and hamlet therein, in Seneca County, New York, United States, named after Tyre, Lebanon.
name
- A surname
- A male given name.
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Etymology
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.
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