Entire vs Tire - What's the difference?
entire | tire |
(sometimes, postpositive) Whole; complete.
(botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
(botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
(complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable]] on all of [[?.
(of a, male animal) Not gelded.
Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* Clarendon
Internal; interior.
An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
* 2005', He asked why Hijaz was an '''entire . You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated. — James Meek, ''The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
(philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
To become sleepy or weary.
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To make sleepy or weary.
To become bored or impatient (with)
To bore
(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
* Philips
(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
*, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:
A covering for the head; a headdress.
* Spenser
Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
(lb) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
(obsolete) To dress or adorn.
* Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30
(obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
* Chapman
* Shakespeare
A tier, row, or rank.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between entire and tire
is that entire is an uncastrated horse; a stallion while tire is bundle, skein, hank.As an adjective entire
is (sometimes|postpositive) whole; complete.entire
English
(wikipedia entire)Alternative forms
* intire (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- pure fear and entire cowardice
- No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* entiretyNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* (l)tire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Verb
(tir) (of)citation, page= , passage=As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.}}
- I tire of this book.
Synonyms
*References
External links
* *Etymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* (rubber covering on a wheel) tyreNoun
(en noun)- the tire of war
- Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.
- men like apes follow the fashions in tires , gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
- On her head she wore a tire of gold.
Usage notes
* Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.Verb
(tir)- [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Alternative forms
* tyreVerb
(tir)- Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
- Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
- Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.
- Upon that were my thoughts tiring .
Etymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.
