TIRE


Meaning of TIRE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a tired cliché (= boring because it has been used so often )

The story is based on a series of tired clichés.

desperately poor/ill/tired etc

He was desperately ill with a fever.

look tired/happy/sad etc

You look tired. You should go to bed.

old though it is/tired though he was etc

Strange though it may seem, I like housework.

sleepy/tired

His eyes looked sleepy.

Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.

sleepy/tired ( also weary literary )

He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.

snow tire

though old/tired etc

The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be sick (and tired) of (doing) sth

Gad, I was sick and tired of life.

I think the archivist who helped me is sick of the sight of me by now.

I was sick of concealments - those retentions of his.

I was sick of following baseball through the abbreviated box scores of the international Herald Tribune.

No one, knowing the Patriarch, could doubt that, after a day of his voice, Zacco was sick of him.

People were sick of the war.

We are sick and tired of the proliferation of guns.

When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.

tired of (doing) sth

But by then, the hedgehog was tired of waiting and was walking away across the croquet-ground.

His sister, Marie, his children-they had all grown tired of him.

I am old, and tired of life.

It was April, his children were tired of riding, and his wife, Clara, was pregnant.

It was possible, of course, but not likely that Zacco had grown tired of his Christmas truce.

She is tired of being asked.

This line has won him widespread backing among middle class voters tired of 17 uninterrupted years of Tory rule.

We are getting tired of people behaving like prima donnas.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I felt as if I could run all day without tiring.

I won't tire you with a long visit. I just wanted to stop in and see how you were doing.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

flat

He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire , police said.

If you have a flat tire , stuff like that happens.

The doctoral student was apparently attempting to change a flat tire when his assailant struck.

She explains to Jose that they have a flat tire and muse go back down the road to the big house.

Suppose he had a flat tire ?

Tight shoes A motorcycle with two flat tires .

In the above case, it would be contextually inappropriate to be only reporting a flat tire at a gas station.

■ NOUN

maker

In order to make up for falling retail prices, tire makers have been struggling to raise prices to car makers.

■ VERB

burn

Texas-Lehigh Cement Company in Buda was recently granted a permit to burn tires for fuel.

change

He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire , police said.

When we reached the car, I held a flashlight while Lydell White Plume changed the tire .

The doctoral student was apparently attempting to change a flat tire when his assailant struck.

make

That can make the tires slippery.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Commission officials said tire burning is not new to Texas.

Now the tire companies have fought back.

On the concrete floor inside are tire tracks, and skid marks where kids have done wheelies or donuts.

That can make the tires slippery.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.