Tire
[taɪə] or ['taɪɚ]
Definition
(noun.) hoop that covers a wheel; 'automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air'.
(verb.) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; 'We wore ourselves out on this hike'.
(verb.) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; 'I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food'.
Typist: Marion--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
(n.) Attire; apparel.
(n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
(n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
(n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
(n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
(v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.
(v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
(v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
(v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
(v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Fatigue, weary, jade, fag, exhaust, knock up, tire out.
v. n. Be fatigued, become weary, grow weary.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exhaust, weary, fatigue, dispirit, jade, harass, bore
ANT:Enliven, animate, refresh, amuse, excite
Typist: Willard
Definition
n. (Spens. Milt.) rank or row esp. of guns train.
n. attire apparel: furniture: a head-dress.—v.t. to dress as the head.—ns. Tire′-val′iant (Shak.) a kind of fanciful head-dress; Tire′-wom′an a lady's-maid; Tir′ing-house -room the place where actors dress.
n. the hoop of iron that ties or binds the fellies of wheels.—ns. Tire′-meas′urer -press -roll′er -set′ter -shrink′er -smith.
v.i. (Shak.) to rend as a bird of prey: to feed: to dwell upon gloat over:—pr.p. tīr′ing; pa.p. tīred.
v.t. to harass to vex: to exhaust the strength of: to weary.—v.i. to become weary: to be fatigued: to have the patience exhausted.—adj. Tired wearied: fatigued.—n. Tired′ness.—adj. Tire′less untiring.—adv. Tire′lessly.—n. Tire′lessness.—adj. Tire′some that tires: fatiguing: tedious.—adv. Tire′somely.—n. Tire′someness.
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Examples
- One is the bicycle with the Palmer tire, and we see what that has led to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The most important of all modern improvements on the bicycle was perhaps the pneumatic tire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When should I ever tire of her! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Finding him at last beginning to tire, we drew him into the boat, and brought him home dripping wet. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I tire myself with such emotion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Well, if yer ain't enough to tire anybody's patience out, I don't know what is! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Are you tired, Cat? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He won't do it unless he is very much worried, and only threatens it sometimes, when he gets tired of studying. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mrs Sparkler, looking at another window where her husband stood in the balcony, was tired of that view. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One never tired of seeing her: she was never monotonous, or insipid, or colourless, or flat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You are tired, and not strong enough to be out long. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You must be tired out by the weight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I really am tired of it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But the wheels had hard tires, the roads and many of the streets were not smooth, the vehicle got the name of the bone-breaker and its use ceased. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Down through these, from the third floor, come the wheels, with the tires mounted and inflated to the proper pressure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When bicycle tires are being inflated, the pump becomes hot because of the compression of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If she tires me, sometimes, by her praises of her son, it is only natural in a mother. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They have rubber tires. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Those on rubber tires with the long barrels? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In addition to this work the construction of tops, curtains and radiators is carried on, and a large space is used for the storage of equipment and parts, such as lamps, horns, tires, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Did you find the journey tiring? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Trudging round the country and tiring of myself out, I shall keep the deadness off, and get my own bread by my own labour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Soon tiring of idleness and isolation he sent a cry from Macedonia to his old friend Milt Adams, who was in Boston, and whom he wished to rejoin if he could get work promptly in the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The donkey-boys were lively young Egyptian rascals who could follow a donkey and keep him in a canter half a day without tiring. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was six feet tall, fond of shooting and hunting, and able to ride seventy-five or eighty miles without tiring. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She might talk to him of the old spot, and never fear tiring him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- For a long time this amused him, but finally tiring he continued his explorations. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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