different between tire vs chafe

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ta???(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ta???/, [?t?a???]
  • (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): /?t???/
  • (Midwestern US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?t????/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• Homophone: tyre

Etymology 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English t?rian, t?orian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teu??n (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewH- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek ??????? (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit ??? (dó?a, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

Alternative forms

• tyre (dialectal)

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).

   I tire of this book.

4. (transitive) To bore.

Synonyms

• (make sleepy or weary): See Thesaurus:tire
• (bore): See Thesaurus:cause boredom

Related terms

• tiresome

Translations

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire.

Alternative forms

• (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

Noun

tire (plural tires)

1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
   • 1705, John Philips, Blenheim

     the tire of war

2. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.

   • , New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:

     men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

3. A covering for the head; a headdress.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,^[2]

     And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

4. (American spelling) Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
5. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
6. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

Usage notes

• Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.

   • [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

Related terms

• tiring-house

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

Alternative forms

• tyre

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

     Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

   • ca. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Sc. iv, ll. 94–97:

     I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.

   • Ye dregs of baseness, vultures amongst men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.

2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
   • 1616, George Chapman, Iliad

     Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

     Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

Etymology 4

Noun

tire (plural tires)

1. A tier, row, or rank.

Further reading

• tire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie

Asturian

Verb

tire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Russian ???? (tire), ultimately from French tiret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ti?re]
• Hyphenation: ti?re

Noun

tire (definite accusative tireni, plural tirel?r)

1. dash (punctuation mark)

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?/

Verb

tire

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
5. second-person singular imperative of tirer

Etymology 2

From English.

Noun

tire m (plural tires)

1. (Canada, Louisiana) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)

Anagrams

• trie, trié

Etymology 3

tire f (plural tires)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Derived terms

• vol à la tire
• voleur à la tire

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tirer (“shoot”).

Verb

tire

1. To shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tray.

Noun

tìr?ê m (possessed form tìr?ên)

1. tray

Portuguese

Verb

tire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
3. first-person singular imperative of tirar
4. third-person singular imperative of tirar

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?r/

Verb

tire (third-person singular present tires, present participle tirin, past tiret, past participle tiret)

1. to tire

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?e/, [?t?i.?e]

Verb

tire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tirar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tirar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tirar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tirar.

Turkish

Etymology

From French tiret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.?e/

Noun

tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)

1. "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?e?f/
• Rhymes: -e?f

Noun

chafe (uncountable)

1. Heat excited by friction.
2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.5:

     Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]

4. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

     When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.

Derived terms

• chafen

Translations

Verb

chafe (third-person singular simple present chafes, present participle chafing, simple past and past participle chafed)

1. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
2. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
3. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.

4. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

     made its great boughs chafe together

5. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.

6. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
   • 1996, Jim Schiller, Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:

     Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy […]

Translations

References

• chafe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Verb

chafe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chafar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chafar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chafar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chafar.