Tore vs Tire - What's the difference?
tore | tire |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Full; rich.
(tear) (rip, rend, speed).
(architecture)
(geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.
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
As nouns the difference between tore and tire
is that tore is custom, law while tire is bundle, skein, hank.tore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Usage notes
* The past tense of the other verb (tear), meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is (teared).Etymology 3
See torus.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.Anagrams
* English irregular simple past forms ----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
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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.