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Tyre
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Tyre has 2 senses
- tyre(n = noun.location) sur - a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks; Array is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center, port
- tyre(n = noun.artifact) tire - hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" has particulars: auto tire, automobile tire, car tire, rubber tire, pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre, wagon tire
is a part of lebanese republic, lebanon
is a kind of hoop, ring
CIDE DICTIONARY
Tyre, n. [Tamil tayir.].
Curdled milk. [1913 Webster]
Tyre, n.
Same as 2nd tire, n. , sense 5. [PJC]
Tyre, n. & v.
Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire. [1913 Webster]
Tyre, v. i.
To prey upon. See 4th Tire. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Tyre, n. (US tire) a rubber covering, usu. inflated, placed round a wheel to form a soft contact with the road.
Idiom
tyre-gauge a portable device for measuring the air-pressure in a tyre.
Etymology
var. of TIRE(2)
ROGET THESAURUS
Tyre
Outline
N outline, circumference, perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette, bounds, coast line, zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre, cingle, clasp, girt, cordon, circlet.Rotation
N rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll, circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration, volutation, circination, turbination, pirouette, convolution, verticity, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge, countercurrent, Maelstrom, Charybdis, Ixion, cyclone, tornado, whirlwind, dust devil, spin-out, axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point, axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel, axle shaft, gymbal, hub, hub of rotation, helix, helical motion, angular momentum, angular velocity, revolutions per minute, RPM, centrifugal force, surge, vertigo, dizzy round, coriolus force, carousel, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, top, dreidel, teetotum, gyroscope, turntable, lazy suzan, screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill, wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear, roller, flywheel, jack, caster, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge, drill, augur, oil rig, wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre, trochilics, whirling dervish, rotating, rotary, rotary, circumrotatory, trochilic, vertiginous, gyratory, vortical, vorticose, head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.
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