different between tire vs tease

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

Alternative forms

• teaze (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English tesen, from Old English t?san (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisijan (“to separate, tug, shred”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?z, IPA^(key): /ti?z/
• Homophones: teas, tees
• Rhymes: -i?z

Verb

tease (third-person singular simple present teases, present participle teasing, simple past and past participle teased)

1. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
2. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
3. To back-comb.
4. (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
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5. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
   • 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     Not by the force of carnal reason, / But indefatigable teasing.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

6. (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
7. (transitive) To entice, tempt.
8. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.

Usage notes

• Tease, in the sense of "make fun of," can refer to cruel statements but also affectionate or harmless ones, which may be taken in good humour by the recipient. By contrast, taunt only refers to cruel statements, as does mock unless qualified (e.g. gently mock).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

tease (plural teases)

1. One who teases.
2. A single act of teasing.
3. One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.

   Synonyms: cock tease, cocktease, cockteaser, prickteaser

Translations

Anagrams

• Seeta, setae, setæ