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Tire vs Pneumatic - What's the difference?

tire | pneumatic |

As nouns the difference between tire and pneumatic

is that tire is accoutrements, accessories while pneumatic is in gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).

As a verb tire

is to become sleepy or weary.

As an adjective pneumatic is

of, relating to, or resembling air or other gases.

tire

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Verb

(tir) (of)
  • To become sleepy or weary.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • To make sleepy or weary.
  • To become bored or impatient (with)
  • I tire of this book.
  • To bore
  • Synonyms
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    References

    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.

    Verb

    (tir)
  • (obsolete) To dress or adorn.
  • * Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30
  • [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

    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 ----

    pneumatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pneumatick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or resembling air or other gases
  • Of or relating to pneumatics
  • Powered by, or filled with compressed air
  • a pneumatic instrument or engine
  • (zoology) Having cavities filled with air
  • pneumatic cells or bones
  • Spiritual; of or relating to the pneuma
  • (of a woman) well-rounded; full-breasted; bouncy (especially during sex)
  • "Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.'' - Aldous Huxley - ''Brave New World (chapter 6)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).