tire

«tire» in Mova's school dictionary: To become tired, or to make someone tired — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (tire, tires, tired, tiring); noun (a tire, tires — American spelling of tyre)

meaning for a pupil

1) To become tired, or to make someone tired. tree →

2) "Tire of" means become bored with. tree →

3) In American and Canadian English, a tire is the rubber ring filled with air around a wheel of a car or bike; in British English it is spelt "tyre". tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and science, bike and car tires grip the road; a flat tire has lost its air. In PE, long runs tire you out. Phrases: flat tire, tire pressure, tire out, tire of, never tire of.

examples

• My bike has a flat tire. tree →
• Dad checked the tire pressure. tree →
• Running up hills tires me out. tree →
• I never tire of this song. tree →
• The puppy tired quickly and fell asleep. tree →
• Check your bike tires before a long ride. tree →
• Old though she was, it seemed impossible to tire her. tree →

note

Spelling: American and Canadian "tire"; British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand "tyre" for the wheel; the verb is always "tire". "Tired" means needing rest; "tiring" means making you tired. Safety: bike tires should be firm; soft tires make steering harder.

In the corpora

• Work can be tiring in the head, not only in the body.
• The octopus's body heart stops while it swims, so swimming tires it quickly, and octopuses mostly crawl over the rocks instead.
• Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.
• In British slang "well" means very, as in "I'm well tired"; no hyphen is needed there.
• A whistle can be heard much further away than a shout, and blowing it does not tire your voice.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tire» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.