tyre

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[ˈtʌɪə], (Noun)

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- a rubber covering, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube, placed round a wheel to form a soft contact with the road
(e.g: she had got a flat tyre while driving home)


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late 15th century (denoting the curved pieces of iron plate with which carriage wheels were formerly shod): perhaps a variant of archaic tire, shortening of attire (because the tyre was the ‘clothing’ of the wheel)


[ˈtʌɪə], (Noun)

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- a port on the Mediterranean in southern Lebanon; population 41,800 (est. 2009). Founded in the 2nd millennium BC as a colony of Sidon, it was for centuries a Phoenician port and trading centre


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