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tyre or US tire Noun a ring of rubber, usually filled with air but sometimes solid, fitted round the rim of a wheel of a road vehicle to grip the road [earlier tire, probably archaic variant of attire]
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 Translationstyre n tyre [ˈtaiə] a thick, rubber, usually air-filled strip around the edge of the wheel of a car, bicycle etc The tyres of this car don't have enough air in them. band إطار، عَجَلَه гума pneumatika dæk der Reifen ελαστικό οχήματος neumático rehv حلقه لاستیک rengas pneu צְמִיג टायर, हाल guma na kotaču gumi(abroncs), köpeny ban hjólbarði pneumatico, gomma タイヤ 타이어 padanga riepa tayar band (bil)dekk opona pneu шина pneumatika zračnica guma däck ยางรถ araba dış lâstiği 輪胎 шина; покришка ٹائر، پہيے کے اوپر کا خول lốp, vỏ 轮胎 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In answer to the challenge of this ambitious structure Time had laid his destroying hand upon it, and it would soon be "one with Nineveh and Tyre. Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original --the Tyre of this Carthage; --the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Then perhaps the bell would jam or a brake fail to act on a hill; or the seat-pillar would get loose, and the saddle drop three or four inches with a disconcerting bump; or the loose and rattling chain would jump the cogs of the chain-wheel as the machine ran downhill, and so bring the mechanism to an abrupt and disastrous stop without at the same time arresting the forward momentum of the rider; or a tyre would bang, or sigh quietly, and give up the struggle for efficiency. |
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Tyre - a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
tyre - hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
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