noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bicycle wheel/tyre
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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 )
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The track was pretty soft and there were tyre marks.
blow...tyres up
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We’ll blow the tyres up .
radial tyre
spare tyre
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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The back tyre mimed a shallow S, then the bike straightened up, began to shrink.
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With the back tyre likely to be several inches in the air, there's no braking power to be gained there.
flat
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A flat tyre once we've cleared El Misti.
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At Bicester it hit a roundabout but kept going with a flat tyre heading for Milton Keynes.
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A flat or burst tyre can mean no flying for months!
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Warren Clarke makes a superbly unattractive and boorish Vic, face in repose like a flat tyre .
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Taxi trials resulted in a flat tail wheel tyre and a hasty change was undertaken.
front
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Mansell went wide and hit the outside wall with his right front tyre , damaging the suspension and causing him to retire.
rear
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The team chose a wet front and an intermediate rear tyre .
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By forcing down on the upper, outside footrest the rider obtains exceptional feel for rear tyre grip.
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At the moment, a wider rear tyre is the main clue to the bike's extra power.
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Fork truck rear tyre soft. 25.
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Suddenly I had a lot more feel for what the rear tyre was doing, or not doing for that matter.
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Guessing what the dispute was over, Fenn swung in towards the vehicle's rear tyre and stopped.
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An hour later a rear tyre blew.
spare
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Thank goodness for my spare tyre , I can afford to lose a bit of that.
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Their companion, in his 20s, had an old, noisy van with a smiling face logo on the spare tyre .
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If only he took as much exercise as I did he wouldn't have that spare tyre , I thought unsympathetically.
■ NOUN
mark
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One snowy morning footprints and tyre marks were imprinted in the snow even though Ted had received no visitor at the box.
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Luke, nicknamed Lucky after a string of mishaps, escaped with just grazes - and a tyre mark up his back.
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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
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The high-performance cars are strictly for the racetrack ... and the message is, going too fast on the roads can kill.
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Under the month-long offer, basic models will be £200 cheaper, with the maximum discount on high-performance cars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time.
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Sparks and flames were threatening to spread to the tyre .
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The team chose a wet front and an intermediate rear tyre .
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The Wheel Wheeler slides under the punctured tyre when it is raised off the ground.
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Then, a group of youths rolled a tractor tyre towards the police line.
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Voice over It's been all hands to the deck at this tyre fitters.
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With, depending on your tyre sizes, Range Rover 3.54:1 diffs and the already fitted overdrive.