Tyre
Definitions
- A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
- The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
- Curdled milk.
- Attire.
- A surname
- 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.
- An unincorporated community in Austin Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States, named after the biblical Tyre.
- A male given name.
- A town and hamlet therein, in Seneca County, New York, United States, named after Tyre, Lebanon.
Equivalents
Examples
“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 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”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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