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Tire vs Trie - What's the difference?

tire | trie |

As nouns the difference between tire and trie

is that tire is bundle, skein, hank while trie is (computer science) an ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.

As a verb trie is

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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
    *

    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 ----

    trie

    English

    Etymology 1

    See try.

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1588? , , “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana , ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
  • If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie , confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
  • Synonyms
    * prefix tree

    Anagrams

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