tire
/ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
US spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco."
- "I tire of this book."
- "the tire of war"
- "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."
- "men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […]."
- "And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn Old English tēorian Middle English tiren English tire From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/
- British English: /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- Obsolete