Tire vs Trie - What's the difference?
tire | trie |
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
* 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),
(computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
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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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
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* *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 ----trie
English
Etymology 1
See try.Verb
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- 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.