Tire vs Strain - What's the difference?
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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
(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
* Shakespeare
* Darwin
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
* Tillotson
A tendency or disposition.
(literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
(biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
(music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
* Dryden
(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
* Dryden
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
* Jonathan Swift
To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
* Denham
* Shakespeare
To urge with importunity; to press.
* Shakespeare
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
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An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
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(label) The track of a deer.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
As nouns the difference between tire and strain
is that tire is bundle, skein, hank while strain is (obsolete) treasure or strain can be the act of straining, or the state of being strained.As a verb strain is
(obsolete) to hold tightly, to clasp.tire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Verb
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- 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.
Anagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbs ----strain
English
(wikipedia strain)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- He is of a noble strain .
- With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
- There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
- They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
- the common strain
Quotations
* (English Citations of "strain")Etymology 2
From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .Verb
(en verb)- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- to strain''' a rope; to '''strain the shrouds of a ship
- Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- To build his fortune I will strain a little.
- He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
- The quality of mercy is not strained .
- to strain a petition or invitation
- Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Noun
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- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.