tire

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ]
  • (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɚ/
  • (Midwestern US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophone: tyre

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]

• tyre (dialectal)

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

• Thesaurus:fatigue

• tiresome

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

• (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

tire (plural tires)

1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
   • (Can we date this quote?) 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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,

     And on her head she wore a tyre 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.

• Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30

     [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

• tiring-house

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

• tyre

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

   • (Can we date this quote?) 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Chapman

     Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

tire (plural tires)

1. A tier, row, or rank.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

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

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie

tire

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

From Russian тире (tire), ultimately from French tiret.

• IPA^(key): [tiˈre]
• Hyphenation: ti‧re

tire (definite accusative tireni, plural tirelər)

1. dash (punctuation mark)

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ/

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

From English.

tire m (plural tires)

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

• trie, trié

From French tirer (“shoot”).

tire

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

Borrowed from English tray.

tìr̃ê m (possessed form tìr̃ên)

1. tray

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəiər/

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

1. to tire

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾe/, [ˈt̪iɾe]

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.

tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)

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