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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#m1)

2) "Tire of" means become bored with. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#m2)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x1)
- Dad checked the tire pressure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x2)
- Running up hills tires me out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x3)
- I never tire of this song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x4)
- The puppy tired quickly and fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x5)
- Check your bike tires before a long ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x6)
- Old though she was, it seemed impossible to tire her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/11/)
- [The octopus's body heart stops while it swims, so swimming tires it quickly, and octopuses mostly crawl over the rocks instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/6/)
- [Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/6/)
- [In British slang "well" means very, as in "I'm well tired"; no hyphen is needed there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/14/)
- [A whistle can be heard much further away than a shout, and blowing it does not tire your voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tire» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tire/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.