Rend vs Tire - What's the difference?

rend | tire |

As a verb rend

is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst.

As a noun tire is

bundle, skein, hank.

rend

English

Verb

To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst

Powder rends a rock in blasting.

Lightning rends an oak.

* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:

We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.

To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs ----

tire
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)
Verb
(tir) (of)
To become sleepy or weary.

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To make sleepy or weary.

To become bored or impatient (with)

I tire of this book.

To bore

Synonyms
*
Related terms
* tiresome
References

External links
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Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Alternative forms
* (rubber covering on a wheel) tyre
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

* Philips

the tire of war

(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:

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.

*, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:

men like apes follow the fashions in tires , gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

A covering for the head; a headdress.

* Spenser

On her head she wore a tire of gold.

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.

Usage notes
* Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.
Related terms
* spare tire
Verb
(tir)
(obsolete) To dress or adorn.

* Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30

[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

Related terms
* tiring-house
Etymology 3
(etyl) .
Alternative forms
* tyre
Verb
(tir)
(obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

* Shakespeare

Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

* Ben Jonson

Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.

(obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

* Chapman

Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.

* Shakespeare

Upon that were my thoughts tiring .

Etymology 4

Noun
(en noun)
A tier, row, or rank.

* Milton

In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Anagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbs ----