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tire
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)
- (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
- (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
- (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
- I tire of this book.
- (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)
- (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
- 1705, John Philips, Blenheim
- the tire of war
- 1705, John Philips, Blenheim
- (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 […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- 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,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,[2]
- (American spelling) Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
- (American spelling, Canadian spelling) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
- 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)
- (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)
- (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.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
- (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.
- 1616, George Chapman, Iliad
Etymology 4
Noun
tire (plural tires)
- 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
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
- 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)
- dash (punctuation mark)
Declension
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?/
Verb
tire
- first-person singular present indicative of tirer
- third-person singular present indicative of tirer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
- second-person singular imperative of tirer
Etymology 2
From English.
Noun
tire m (plural tires)
- (Canada, Louisiana) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)
Anagrams
- trie, trié
Etymology 3
tire f (plural tires)
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Derived terms
- vol à la tire
- voleur à la tire
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French tirer (“shoot”).
Verb
tire
- To shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from English tray.
Noun
tìr?ê m (possessed form tìr?ên)
- tray
Portuguese
Verb
tire
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
- first-person singular imperative of tirar
- 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)
- to tire
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti?e/, [?t?i.?e]
Verb
tire
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tirar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tirar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tirar.
- 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)
- "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.
Declension
tire From the web:
- what tires fit my car
- what tire pressure is too low
- what tires are made in the usa
- what tire sizes mean
- what tire size is equivalent to 33
- what tire pressure is too high
- what tires should i buy
- what tire pressure should my tires be
disturb
English
Etymology
From Middle English destourben, from Anglo-Norman distourber and Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?t??b/
- Rhymes: -??(r)b
Verb
disturb (third-person singular simple present disturbs, present participle disturbing, simple past and past participle disturbed)
- (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
- (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
- (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
Derived terms
- disturbance
Translations
Noun
disturb
- (obsolete) disturbance
disturb From the web:
- what disturbances cause earthquakes
- what disturbances cause primary succession
- what disturbing forces cause waves
- what disturbance led to feudalism establishment
- what disturbs holden at phoebe's school
- what disturbs sleep
- what disturbs rem sleep
- which cause earthquakes
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