tire

See also: tiré, tirë, tíre, tìre, and тире

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *tiuzōną (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewH- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).[1]

Alternative forms

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

  1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
    • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎:
      As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.
  2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
  3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with)
    I tire of this book.
  4. (transitive) To bore
Synonyms
  • Thesaurus:fatigue
Translations
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References

  1. ↑ J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "lack: deu(s)-" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 343.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire

Alternative forms

  • (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

Noun

tire (plural tires)

  1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
    • Philips
      the tire of war
  2. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
      Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:
      men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
  3. A covering for the head; a headdress.
    • Spenser
      On her head she wore a tire of gold.
  4. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
  5. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
  6. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
Usage notes
  • Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
    • Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30
      [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
  • tiring-house
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

Alternative forms

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

  1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
    • Shakespeare
      Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
    • Ben Jonson
      Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
  2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
    • Chapman
      Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.
    • Shakespeare
      Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

Etymology 4

Noun

tire (plural tires)

  1. A tier, row, or rank.
    • Milton
      In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Further reading

  • tire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • tire in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

tire

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiʁ/

Verb

tire

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tirer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of tirer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
  5. second-person singular imperative of tirer

Etymology 2

From English.

Noun

tire m (plural tires)

  1. (Canada, Louisiana) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tirer (“shoot”).

Verb

tire

  1. To shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tray.

Noun

tìr̃ê m (possessed form tìr̃ên)

  1. tray

Portuguese

Verb

tire

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
  3. first-person singular imperative of tirar
  4. third-person singular imperative of tirar

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtəiər/

Verb

tire (third-person singular present tires, present participle tirin, past tiret, past participle tiret)

  1. to tire

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiɾe/, [ˈt̪iɾe]

Verb

tire

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tirar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tirar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tirar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tirar.

Turkish

Noun

tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)

  1. "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative tire
Definite accusative tireyi
Singular Plural
Nominative tire tireler
Definite accusative tireyi tireleri
Dative tireye tirelere
Locative tirede tirelerde
Ablative tireden tirelerden
Genitive tirenin tirelerin
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