TYRE


Meaning of TYRE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bicycle wheel/tyre

My front bicycle tyre is flat.

a tyre mark British English , a tire mark American English (= a mark left on the ground by a vehicle’s tyre )

The track was pretty soft and there were tyre marks.

blow...tyres up

We’ll blow the tyres up .

radial tyre

spare tyre

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

back

The back tyre mimed a shallow S, then the bike straightened up, began to shrink.

With the back tyre likely to be several inches in the air, there's no braking power to be gained there.

flat

A flat tyre once we've cleared El Misti.

At Bicester it hit a roundabout but kept going with a flat tyre heading for Milton Keynes.

A flat or burst tyre can mean no flying for months!

Warren Clarke makes a superbly unattractive and boorish Vic, face in repose like a flat tyre .

Taxi trials resulted in a flat tail wheel tyre and a hasty change was undertaken.

front

Mansell went wide and hit the outside wall with his right front tyre , damaging the suspension and causing him to retire.

rear

The team chose a wet front and an intermediate rear tyre .

By forcing down on the upper, outside footrest the rider obtains exceptional feel for rear tyre grip.

At the moment, a wider rear tyre is the main clue to the bike's extra power.

Fork truck rear tyre soft. 25.

Suddenly I had a lot more feel for what the rear tyre was doing, or not doing for that matter.

Guessing what the dispute was over, Fenn swung in towards the vehicle's rear tyre and stopped.

An hour later a rear tyre blew.

spare

Thank goodness for my spare tyre , I can afford to lose a bit of that.

Their companion, in his 20s, had an old, noisy van with a smiling face logo on the spare tyre .

If only he took as much exercise as I did he wouldn't have that spare tyre , I thought unsympathetically.

■ NOUN

mark

One snowy morning footprints and tyre marks were imprinted in the snow even though Ted had received no visitor at the box.

Luke, nicknamed Lucky after a string of mishaps, escaped with just grazes - and a tyre mark up his back.

A crash investigator told the court he'd calculated the speed using a reconstruction and tyre marks left on the road.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

high-performance cars/computers/tyres etc

The high-performance cars are strictly for the racetrack ... and the message is, going too fast on the roads can kill.

Under the month-long offer, basic models will be £200 cheaper, with the maximum discount on high-performance cars.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time.

Sparks and flames were threatening to spread to the tyre .

The team chose a wet front and an intermediate rear tyre .

The Wheel Wheeler slides under the punctured tyre when it is raised off the ground.

Then, a group of youths rolled a tractor tyre towards the police line.

Voice over It's been all hands to the deck at this tyre fitters.

With, depending on your tyre sizes, Range Rover 3.54:1 diffs and the already fitted overdrive.

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