Tyre

/taɪə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid..

Definitions by Sense

1. The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
2. The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.
3. (transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
4. (India) Curdled milk.
5. (obsolete) Attire.
6. (obsolete) To adorn.

Example Sentences

pneumatic tyres

runflat tyres

iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse

tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings

It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.

The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.

And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

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• tyres
• tire
• tyring
• tyred

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