tyre

/taɪə(ɹ)/

name 5noun 4verb 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

flat, punctured

My car wouldn't start moving because one of the tyres was punctured.

fat

The mountain bike had fat tyres that gripped the muddy trail perfectly.

pneumatic | crossply, radial | whitewall | bicycle, car, etc.

QUANT

set

VERB + TYRE

change, replace | inflate, pump up

deflate, let down

My car wouldn't start this morning because someone had deflated all four tyres.

fit, fit sth with

The mechanic fitted new tyres on my car before the long journey.

blow, burst

My car burst a tyre on the motorway yesterday morning.

patch, repair, retread

The mechanic repaired my car tyre after I drove over broken glass on the highway.

check

Before the long road trip, my father checked all four tyres for any damage or low pressure.

slash

Someone slashed my car tyre with a knife during the night.

TYRE + VERB

deflate, go flat, get/have a puncture, puncture

blow (out), burst

The front tyre burst when she drove over broken glass on the highway.

crunch, screech, squeal

The car's tyres screeched as he swerved to avoid the cyclist on the road.

TYRE + NOUN

mark, tracks | pressure | tread

PHRASES

a crunch/screech/squeal of tyres

The car stopped suddenly with a loud crunch of tyres on the gravel road.

Definitions

noun

The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

pneumatic tyres

runflat tyres

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.

iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse

tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings

verb

To fit tyres to (a vehicle).

The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

noun

Curdled milk.

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.

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Synonyms

noun — hoop that covers a wheel

tire

noun — a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

tyre kicker

A person who pretends to be interested in purchasing an item (especially a car), but who has no intention of buying it.

"Some exhibitions charge a ticket price to separate the tyre-kickers from the genuine buyers," Doherty says.

Example Bank

pneumatic tyres

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runflat tyres

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iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse

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The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

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And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

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