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tyre
/taɪɹ/
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What does tyre mean?
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).
More meanings (8)
noun
- Curdled milk.
- (obsolete) Attire.
proper noun
- 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.
- A surname
- A male given name.
verb
- (obsolete) To adorn.
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IPA pronunciation
/taɪɹ/
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Not even the most doleful and trying hour of his bitter experience in Tyre had depressed him like this.
Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received The danger of the task you undertake.
More book examples (3)
Those who governed in Cyprus, put that island into his possession, and Phoenicia, Tyre only excepted, was surrendered to him.
A few leagues from the ancient Tyre can still be seen a circle of upright stones.
And from Ptolemaïs, that men clepe now Akon, unto a great hill, that is clept Scale of Tyre, is one hundred furlongs.