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Tyre

(tīr)

An ancient Phoenician city on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day southern Lebanon. The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century bc, it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 bc and was destroyed by a Mameluke army in ad 1291.

tyre

(tīr)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of tire².

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tyre

(ˈtaɪə) or

tire

1. (Automotive Engineering) a rubber ring placed over the rim of a wheel of a road vehicle to provide traction and reduce road shocks, esp a hollow inflated ring (pneumatic tyre) consisting of a reinforced outer casing enclosing an inner tube. See also tubeless tyre, cross-ply, radial-ply

2. (Railways) a ring of wear-resisting steel shrunk thermally onto a cast-iron railway wheel

3. a metal band or hoop attached to the rim of a wooden cartwheel

(Automotive Engineering) (tr) to fit a tyre or tyres to (a wheel, vehicle, etc)

[C18: variant of C15 tire, probably from tire³]

Tyre

(ˈtaɪə) or

Tyr

(Placename) a port in S Lebanon, on the Mediterranean: founded about the 15th century bc; for centuries a major Phoenician seaport, famous for silks and its Tyrian-purple dye; now a small market town. Pop: 141 000 (2005 est). Arabic name: Sur

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tyre

(taɪ^ər)

n., v.t. tyred, tyr•ing. Brit.

tire ².

Tyre

(taɪ^ər)

n.

an ancient seaport and trading center of Phoenicia: site of modern Sur.

tyre

Past participle: tyred
Gerund: tyring

Imperative
tyre
tyre

Present
I tyre
you tyre
he/she/it tyres
we tyre
you tyre
they tyre

Preterite
I tyred
you tyred
he/she/it tyred
we tyred
you tyred
they tyred

Present Continuous
I am tyring
you are tyring
he/she/it is tyring
we are tyring
you are tyring
they are tyring

Present Perfect
I have tyred
you have tyred
he/she/it has tyred
we have tyred
you have tyred
they have tyred

Past Continuous
I was tyring
you were tyring
he/she/it was tyring
we were tyring
you were tyring
they were tyring

Past Perfect
I had tyred
you had tyred
he/she/it had tyred
we had tyred
you had tyred
they had tyred

Future
I will tyre
you will tyre
he/she/it will tyre
we will tyre
you will tyre
they will tyre

Future Perfect
I will have tyred
you will have tyred
he/she/it will have tyred
we will have tyred
you will have tyred
they will have tyred

Future Continuous
I will be tyring
you will be tyring
he/she/it will be tyring
we will be tyring
you will be tyring
they will be tyring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been tyring
you have been tyring
he/she/it has been tyring
we have been tyring
you have been tyring
they have been tyring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been tyring
you will have been tyring
he/she/it will have been tyring
we will have been tyring
you will have been tyring
they will have been tyring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been tyring
you had been tyring
he/she/it had been tyring
we had been tyring
you had been tyring
they had been tyring

Conditional
I would tyre
you would tyre
he/she/it would tyre
we would tyre
you would tyre
they would tyre

Past Conditional
I would have tyred
you would have tyred
he/she/it would have tyred
we would have tyred
you would have tyred
they would have tyred

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Noun	1.	Tyre - a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks Sur Lebanese Republic, Lebanon - an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean
	2.	tyre - hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" tire auto tire, automobile tire, car tire, rubber tire - a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel hoop, ring - a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre - a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc wagon tire - a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel

Translations

إِطَارُ العَجَلَةإطار هواءإطار، عَجَلَه

pneumatika

dæk

Reifen Autoreifen

λάστιχο

neumático rueda caucho cubierta llanta

rengas

pneu pneumatique

guma

autógumibicikligumigumigumiabroncskerékpárgumi

banbandajo

hjólbarîi

gomma ruota

タイヤ

타이어

padanga

riepa

автомобильная шина баллон резина шина

pneumatika

obročpnevmatikazračnica

däck

ยางรถยางรถยนต์

araba dış lâstiğilastik

шина

lốp xevỏ

轮胎

Tyre

[ˈtaɪəʳ] N → Tiro m

tyre

tire (US) [ˈtaɪəʳ]

A. N [of car, bus, bicycle etc] → neumático m (Sp), llanta f (LAm), caucho m (S. Cone); (= outer cover) → cubierta f; (= inner tube) → cámara f (de aire); [of cart] → llanta f, calce m; [of pram] → rueda f de goma
to have a burst/flat tyre → tener una rueda pinchada or (Mex) ponchada

B. CPD tyre burst N → pinchazo m, reventón m
tyre gauge N → medidor m de presión
tyre lever N → palanca f para desmontar neumáticos
tyre pressure N → presión f de los neumáticos
tyre valve N → válvula f de neumático

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tyre

[ˈtaɪə^r] tire (US) n → pneu mtyre lever n (British) → démonte-pneu mtyre marks npl → traces fpl de pneutyre pressure n → pression f des pneus

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tyre

, (US) tire

(Aut) → Reifen m; a burst (Brit) or blown tyre → ein geplatzter Reifen

he has tyres (hum inf) → er hat Speckrollen am Bauch (inf)

tyre

, (US) tire:

tyre gauge

n → Reifendruckmesser m

tyre lever

n → Montiereisen nt

tyre pressure

n → Reifendruck m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tyre

tire (Am) [ˈtaɪəʳ] n (Aut) → gomma, pneumatico

tyre

(American) tire (ˈtaiə) noun

a thick, rubber, usually air-filled strip around the edge of the wheel of a car, bicycle etc. The tyres of this car don't have enough air in them.

tyre

→ إِطَارُ العَجَلَة pneumatika dæk Autoreifen λάστιχο neumático rengas pneu guma ruota タイヤ 타이어 band dekk opona pneu шина däck ยางรถ lastik lốp xe 轮胎

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Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.

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We blew out a tyre. There was no way of fixing it, and twilight was coming on.

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This thought has let states with a limited territorial basis like Tyre, Carthage, Venice, Holland, and England, for instance, to secure the carrying trade.

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In answer to the challenge of this ambitious structure Time had laid his destroying hand upon it, and it would soon be "one with Nineveh and Tyre." In an inscription on one side his eye caught a familiar name.

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One was annoyed because his left pedal had come off, and the other because his tyre had become deflated, small and indeed negligible accidents by Bun Hill standards, due entirely to the ungentle handling of the delicate machines entrusted to them--and they failed to see clearly how they put themselves in the wrong by this method of argument.

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Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original --the Tyre of this Carthage; --the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.

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I remember in the early days of motor-cars being with a friend when a tyre burst with a loud report.

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At 6 o'clock P.M., we came to a halt here on the breezy summit of a shapely mountain overlooking the sea, and the handsome valley where dwelt some of those enterprising Phoenicians of ancient times we read so much about; all around us are what were once the dominions of Hiram, King of Tyre, who furnished timber from the cedars of these Lebanon hills to build portions of King Solomon's Temple with.

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Ere long Marseilles presented herself to view, -- Marseilles, white, fervid, full of life and energy, -- Marseilles, the younger sister of Tyre and Carthage, the successor to them in the empire of the Mediterranean, -- Marseilles, old, yet always young.

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“Help, masters, help; here’s a fish hangs in the net, like a poor Man’s right in the law.’—Pericles of Tyre.

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For example we burst a tyre within a mile of Credence Green, and, to save time, walked into the beautifully kept little village.

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But she was not very shy; indeed, she was less shy than I was, and lingered in the hall, giving the servants directions to wipe the snow off the tyres of her machine before she lent an attentive ear to my welcoming remarks.