tyre

«tyre» in Mova's school dictionary: a thick rubber ring, usually filled with air, that fits… — 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

noun (a tyre, tyres); American: tire

meaning for a pupil

1) A tyre is a thick rubber ring, usually filled with air, that fits around a wheel of a car, bike or other vehicle. tree →

2) A flat tyre is one with no air in it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: check your bike tyres have enough air before you ride; worn tyres slip on wet roads. In science, the grooves (tread) on tyres give grip by increasing friction. Phrases: flat tyre, spare tyre, pump up a tyre, tyre pressure.

examples

• My bike has a flat tyre. tree →
• Dad changed the car tyre at the side of the road. tree →
• Pump up your tyres before you ride. tree →
• Tyres grip the road because of friction. tree →
• The spare tyre is in the boot. tree →
• Old tyres can be made into swings. tree →
• Bumpy tyres help mountain bikes on mud. tree →
• We heard the tyres screech. tree →

note

British, Irish, Australian and NZ spelling: tyre; American and Canadian spelling: tire. Do not confuse with the verb tire (to get tired), which is spelled tire everywhere. The wheel is the round frame; the tyre is the rubber part around it.

In the corpora

• Squashed air pushes back hard, which is how bike tyres and footballs work.
• A hard-topped metal car protects you because its metal body carries the lightning around you; the rubber tyres do not.
• Rubber tyres are not what makes a car safe in lightning.
• Kicking a tyre is anger at a thing, not at a person, but it still feels scary to see.
• Seeing a parent lose their temper, even at a thing like a tyre, can be frightening.

Trees and pragmatics

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