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Webster 1913 Edition

Tire

Tire

,
Noun.
A tier, row, or rank. See
Tier
.
[Obs.]
In posture to displode their second
tire

Of thunder.
Milton.

Tire

,
Noun.
[Aphetic form of
attire
; OE.
tir
,
a tir
. See
Attire
.]
1.
Attire; apparel.
[Archaic]
“Having rich tire about you.”
Shak.
2.
A covering for the head; a headdress.
On her head she wore a
tire
of gold.
Spenser.
3.
A child’s apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
4.
Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
[Obs.]
“The tire of war.”
Philips.
5.
[Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel.]
A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled
tyre
.

Tire

,
Verb.
T.
To adorn; to attire; to dress.
[Obs.]
[Jezebel] painted her face, and
tired
her head.
2 Kings ix. 30.

Tire

,
Verb.
I.
[F.
tirer
to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E.
tear
to rend. See
Tirade
.]
1.
To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
[Obs.]
Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires
with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
Shakespeare
Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men,
That
tire
upon the hearts of generous spirits.
B. Jonson.
2.
To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
[Obs.]
Thus made she her remove,
And left wrath
tiring
on her son.
Chapman.
Upon that were my thoughts
tiring
.
Shakespeare

Tire

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tired
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tiring
.]
[OE.
teorien
to become weary, to fail, AS.
teorian
to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E.
tear
to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E.
tarry
.]
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted;
as, a feeble person soon
tires
.

Tire

,
Verb.
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.
Shak.
Tired
with toil, all hopes of safety past.
Dryden.
To tire out
,
to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.
Syn. – To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See
Jade
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tire

TIRE

,
Noun.
[Heb. tur, a row or series.]
1.
A tier; a row or rank. This is the same word as tier, differently written. [See Tier and Tour.]
2.
A head dress; something that encompasses the head. [See Tiara.] Ezek.24. Is.3.
On her head she wore a tire of gold.
3.
Furniture; apparatus; as the tire of war.
4.
Attire. [See Attire.]
5.
A band or hoop of iron, used to bind the fellies of wheels, to secure them from wearing and breaking; as cart-tire; wagon-tire. This tire however is generally formed of different pieces, and is not one entire hoop.

TIRE

,
Verb.
T.
To adorn; to attire; to dress; as the head. Obs. [See Attire.] 2 Kings 9.

TIRE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. tero.]
1.
To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the strength by toil or labor; as, to tire a horse or an ox. A long day's work in summer will tire the laborer.
Tir'd with toil, all hopes of safety past.
2.
To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the power of attending, or to exhaust patience with dullness or tediousness. A dull advocate may tire the court and jury, and injure his cause.
To tire out, to weary or fatigue to excess; to harass.

TIRE

,
Verb.
I.
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted. A feeble body soon tires with hard labor.

Definition 2024

tire

tire

See also: tiré, tirë, tíre, and tìre

English

Alternative forms

Verb

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

  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
  • Wikisaurus:fatigue
Related terms
Translations

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, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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.
Related 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.
Related terms
  • tiring-house
Translations

Etymology 3

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.

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

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tì‧r̃ê

Noun

tire m

  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

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 }}}, plural }}})

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ]
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
  • Homophone: tyre

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