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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.
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An unincorporated community in Austin Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States, named after the biblical Tyre.
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A town and hamlet therein, in Seneca County, New York, United States, named after Tyre, Lebanon.
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name
A surname
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name
A male given name.
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noun
The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
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noun
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.
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noun
Curdled milk.
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noun
Attire.
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Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To adorn.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
hoop that covers a wheel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tire
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Broader terms: hoop, ring
Narrower terms: car tire, automobile tire, auto tire, rubber tire, pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre, wagon tire
noun
a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Sur
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center, port
History
From Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr /Ṣur/, “rock”) (), after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. Compare Aramaic טוּרָא / ܛܘܪܐ (ṭūrā, “mountain, high territory”), Akkadian 𒌷𒀫𒊒 (URUṣur-ru /Ṣurru/), Tarifit aẓru (“rock”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵥⵔⵓ (aẓru, “stone”), Proto-Semitic *ṯ̣Vrr- (“flint”). Cognate to Arabic صُور (ṣūr), Hebrew צוֹר (Tzor), Tiberian Hebrew צר (Ṣōr), Turkish Sur.
Attested in the sense “rim of a wheel” since ca. 1500. Generally considered to be a use of Middle English tir(e), a clipped byform of atir (“equipment, furnishings, ornament”), whence modern attire. A less accepted theory derives it from the verb to tie. The spelling tyre was predominant in the 16th century, but largely gave way to tire in the 17th and 18th, before it was revived again outside North America in the 19th century.
Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.
Possibly a shortening of attire; or metathetically from a tire, with the 'a' viewed as indefinite article a.
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