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"TIRES" is a plural of: tire. |
Date "TIRES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Tires "To tire" the head is to adorn it (2 Kings 9:30). As a noun the word is derived from "tiara," and is the rendering of the Heb. p'er, a "turban" or an ornament for the head (Ezek. 24:17; R.V., "headtire;" 24:23). In Isa. 3:18 the word _saharonim_ is rendered "round tires like the moon," and in Judg. 8:21, 26 "ornaments," but in both cases "crescents" in the Revised Version. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Environment | As used in recycling, passenger car and truck tires (excludes airplane, bus, motorcycle and special service military, agricultural, off-the-road and-slow speed industrial tires). Car and truck tires are recycled into rubber products such as trash cans, storage containers, rubberized asphalt or used whole for playground and reef construction. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tire (British tyre\) is a roughly toroidal piece of, usually, rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. Tires generally have reinforcing threadss in them; based on the orientation of the threads, they are classified as bias-ply or radial. A tire may have an inner tube or not. Air filled tires are known as pnuematic tires, and these are the type in almost universal use today. The air compresses as the wheel goes over a bump and acts as a shock absorber. Attempts have been made to make various types of solid tire but none has so far met with much success.Tire maufacturing companies include:
- Bridgestone
- Goodyear
- Michelin
- Dunlop
History
For most of history wheels had very little in the way of shock absorption and journeys were very bumpy and uncomfortable. The modern tire came about in stages in the 19th century.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber, the material that would later be used to produce tires.
John Boyd Dunlop, a vetinary surgeon living in Belfast Ireland, is widely recognized as the father of the modern tire, although he was not the first to come up with the idea.
In 1845 the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic (inflatable) tire was patented by Scottish engineer Robert William Thompson as the Aerial Wheel. This invention consisted of a canvas inner tube surrounded by a leather outer tire. The tire gave a good ride, but there were so many manufacturing and fitting problems that the idea had to be abandoned.
John Dunlop re-invented the tire for his ten year old son's tricycle in 1887 and was awarded a patent for his tire in 1888. Dunlop's tire had a modified leather hosepipe as an inner tube and rubber treads. It wasn't long before rubber inner tubes were invented.
Because neither bicycles nor automobiles had been invented when Thompson produced his tire, that tire was only applied to horse drawn carriages. By Dunlop's time, the bicycle had been fully developed (see Rover) and it proved a far more suitable application for pneumatic tires.
Dunlop partnered with Harvey du Cross, Jr to form a company which later became the Dunlop Rubber Company to produce his invention. The invention quickly caught on for bicycles and was later adapted for use on carss. Dunlop's company has since merged with the Goodyear company.
Train tires
The steel wheels of trains have tires too, steel tires.
(Some trains, mostly Metros, have rubber tires, including the Paris Metro, the Montreal Metro, andthe Washington DC Metro).
Efficient though the rolling of steel wheel on steel rail is, wear still takes place - on acceleration, on braking, and on cornering. As well as the simple wearing away of the wheel surface, a wheel that wears begins to deviate from the correct profile. The shape of a train wheel is designed and specified precisely for the best possible riding and cornering characteristics, and too much wear can alter that. Wear can also take place unevenly if wheels lock up under heavy braking, causing flat spots.
Another, different form of damage to a train's wheels takes place if violent wheelslip occurs. The friction so caused can heat the wheel (and rail) enough to cause permanent heat damage.
Replacing a whole wheel because of a worn contact surface proves expensive, so the concept of fitting steel tires to train wheels came about. The tire is a hoop of steel that's fitted around the steel or iron wheel. No obvious form of fastening is generally used to attach it. Instead, the tire is held by an interference fit - it's made slightly smaller than the wheel on which it is supposed to fit. To fit a tire, it's heated up until it's glowing hot. Railroad workshops generally have special equipment to do so. As the tire heats, it expands until it's big enough to fit around the wheel. After placing it on the wheel, the tire is cooled, and it shrink fits onto the wheel. When cold, the tire won't budge even under quite extreme forces.
Removing a tire is done in reverse - the tire is heated while on the wheel until it loosens.
Tires are reasonably thick, up to about an inch thick or more, giving plenty of room to wear. If a tire wears out of shape, or gets flat-spotted, but has a reasonable amount of metal left, it can be turned on a wheel lathe to refinish it, reshaping it to the correct profile.
See also
- Used tires and Waste
- Philip Strauss, treasurer of the Hardman Tyre & Rubber Company, applied an invention of his father's (Alexander Strauss) to produce a combination fabric reinforced hardened rubber tire and rubber inner tube. Patented in 1911.
External link
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tire."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TIRES | English | Transient Infrared Emission Spectroscopy | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refuge | Jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor; safety belt, airbag, seat belt; antilock brakes, antiskid tires, snow tires. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | No you can't buy tires with food stamps (Head of State; writing credit: Chris Rock; Ali LeRoi) It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis) Light the tires and fight the fires (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich) I bet you got to sneak up on the pumps just to get a little air in your tires! (American Graffiti; writing credit: George Lucas ; Gloria Katz) I would breathe a big sigh of relief unless of course I liked him then I'd just hunt him down and slash his tires. (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois) | |
Lyrics | Suma tuma tires and they gotta be run flat (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) The screamin tires, the bustin glass (Last Kiss; performing artist: Pearl Jam) | |
Clever | Stud Tires Out (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if you rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spare My Tires Tireman (1942) Red Hot Tires (1935) Rubber Tires (1927) Red Hot Tires (1925) | |
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 | Domestic species are those that breed close to human habitation. Old discarded tires may contain larvae of any of the three domestic species including Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex pipiens, and Aedes aegypti. Credit: CDC. |  | Tires, mosquito breeding site, Texas. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Overhauling tires" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Looking ahead from on top of a tractor-pulled wanigan. Large round tires carried fuel. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Trailor with large tires filled with fuel. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Navy divers assisting in the placement of used tires as an alternate reef material on the artificial reef site at Pokai Bay, Oahu. The tires did not stay in place because of the strong surge of the large Pacific swells at the site. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Tires being placed in an array to determine their effectiveness as habitat for fish. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Ambulances- Horsedrawn : General view (note inflated rubber tires). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Photographed when first completed, circa mid-1939. The ship appears to be under tow, with a canvas cover over her stack, indicating that she may be en route from her builders for delivery to the Navy. Five tires are hung over her side for use as fenders. Credit: NAVY. |  | These prewar tires are causing a lot of grief. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Tires..Lot's of them" by James Hernandez Commentary: "Tire graveyard." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Car revving its engine then tires squealing. | | Car tires skidding on the street. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Giulio Andreotti | Power tires only those who do not have it. |
Mao Tse-tung | The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur Bishop, the Jehovah hypothesis tires me. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He swung the great truck viciously around a bend and the tires shrilled |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Health | This tires the respiratory muscles so that they are unable to get enough air to the alveoli. (references) | |
Items that collect rainwater or are used to store water (for example, plastic containers, 55-gallon drums, buckets, or used automobile tires) should be covered or properly discarded. (references) | ||
Business | Tires are therefore included in the scope of this report. (references) | |
This Directive will ban the landfilling of both whole tires and shredded tires. (references) | ||
The warranty may exclude damage due to road hazards, tires and dealer installed options. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ghana | The mob also attacked vehicles on the Accra-Winneba road, which passes directly by the camp, damaging vehicles, burning tires, and harassing drivers. (references) |
Guatemala | Protesters from the national university held hunger strikes in front of the Constitutional Court, and protesters in various cities burned tires in the streets. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | The typical retail shop sells a single commodity, such as tires, cooking utensils, or jewelry. (references) |
Human Rights | Gambia | When police attempted to stop the demonstration, the student demonstrators burned tires and threw stones. (references) |
Ghana | On March 5 in Nsoatre, Brong-Ahafo Region, three persons were killed and nine were injured when police attempted to disperse residents opposed to the enstoolment of a new chief who had occupied the chief's palace and barricaded the road with burning tires. (references) | |
Ghana | On May 11, youths from Nima and Mamobi, primarily Muslim districts of Accra, attacked two police stations, several kiosks, and a local hotel, setting tires on fire, and broke windows to protest police actions at the stadium on May 9. Police were unable to control the rioters, and military personnel were dispatched to restore order; no injuries were reported. (references) | |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | Licensing requirements remain for firearms, used clothing, used tires, and explosives. (references) |
ECUADOR | Import bans on used clothing, used cars and used tires have yet to be eliminated, despite Ecuador's promise in its WTO accession protocol to do so by July 1996. (references) | |
PERU | The following imports are banned: several insecticides, fireworks, used clothing, used shoes, used tires, radioactive waste, cars over five years old, and trucks over eight years old. (references) | |
Political Rights | Haiti | The militants burned tires, threw rocks at the opposition headquarters, and closed streets to protest the Convergence's perceived intransigence and their proclamation of an "alternative government." On March 19, the opposition and the demonstrators exchanged gunfire in front of the headquarters. (references) |
Trade | Peru | Used tires are also prohibited. (references) |
Morocco | Import restrictions apply only to firearms, explosives, used clothing and used tires. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | Past demonstrations have been marked by burning tires, blocked streets, and Molotov cocktails. (references) |
Costa Rica | A common ploy by thieves involves the surreptitious puncturing of tires of rental cars, often close to the car rental agency itself. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TIRES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "TIRES" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 54.55% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (plural) | 45.45% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TIRES": antiskid tires ♦ put tires on ♦ set of tires ♦ snow tires ♦ studded tires. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
michelin tires.com | 18 |
goodyear tires.com | 17 |
big o tires.com | 9 |
firestone tires.com | 7 |
tires.com yokohama | 6 |
coker tires.com | 3 |
good tires.com year | 3 |
michlin tires.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TIRES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 轮胎 (tire, Tyre). (various references) | |
Dutch | banden. (various references) | |
French | pneumatique (tire). (various references) | |
German | ermüdet (fatigues, tired, wearies), Bereifung (set of tires). (various references) | |
Italian | cerchiatura (banding, binding, brace, ferrule, hooping, shrinking). (various references) | |
Korean | 타이어 (tire, Tyre). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irestay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pneus. (various references) | |
Russian | вращать колеса (rotate tires). (various references) | |
Spanish | llantas. (various references) | |
Swedish | däcken (the tires). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En th hmera ekeinh kai afelei kurioV thn doxan tou imatismou autwn kai touV kosmouV autwn kai ta emplokia kai touV kosumbouV kai touV mhniskouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In die illa auferet Dominus ornatum calciamentorum et lunulas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In that dai the Lord shal don awei the ournement of shon, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | In that day the Lord will take away the show of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Niadtong adlawa pagakuhaon sa Ginoo ang katahum sa bukala sa ilang mga tiil, ug ang mga pandong, ug ang pikas nga mga bulan-bulan; |
| Croatian | U onaj æe dan Gospod strgnuti sve èime se ona ponosi: ukosnice i mjeseèiæe, |
| Danish | På hin Dag afriver Herren al deres Pynt: Ankelringe, Pandebånd, Halvmåner, |
| Dutch | Ten zelfden dage zal de HEERE wegnemen het sieraad der kousebanden, en de netjes, en de maantjes, |
| Finnish | Sinä päivänä Herra poistaa koreat nilkkarenkaat, otsanauhat, puolikuukorut, |
| French | En ce jour, le Seigneur ôtera les boucles qui servent d`ornement à leurs pieds, Et les filets et les croissants; |
| German | Zu der Zeit wird der HERR den Schmuck an den köstlichen Schuhen wegnehmen und die Heftel, die Spangen, |
| Haitian Creole | Jou sa a, Bondye va wete tout bijou yo gen sou yo: braslè yo mete nan pye yo, bando yo mare nan tèt yo, meday yo mare sou fwon yo, |
| Hungarian | Megkopaszítja az Úr Sion leányainak fejtetõjét, és az õ szemérmöket megmezteleníti. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Akan tiba waktunya TUHAN mengambil dari wanita-wanita Yerusalem segala perhiasan yang mereka banggakan: ikat kepala, gelang kaki, kalung, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada hari itu juga diangkat Tuhan kelak akan segala perhiasan gelang keroncong dan dokoh lawi-lawi melekah dan dokoh sehari bulan, |
| Italian | In quel giorno il Signore toglierà l'ornamento di fibbie, fermagli e lunette, |
| Maori | I taua ra ka kore i te Ariki te ataahua o nga mea tatangi o nga waewae, o nga whakapaipai ripekapeka, o nga heitiki; |
| Portuguese | Naquele dia lhes trará o Senhor o ornamento dos pés, e as coifas, e as luetas; |
| Rumanian | Kn ziua aceea, Domnul va scoate verigile cari le slujesc ca podoabq la picioare, wi soriworii wi luniwoarele, |
| Russian | Ч ФПФ ДЕОШ ПФОЙНЕФ зПУРПДШ ЛТБУЙЧЩЕ ГЕРПЮЛЙ ОБ ОПЗБИ Й ЪЧЕЪДПЮЛЙ, Й МХОПЮЛЙ, |
| Spanish | En aquel día el Señor quitará los adornos de los tobillos, las diademas, las lunetas, |
| Swedish | På den dagen skall Herren taga bort all deras ståt: fotringar, pannband och halsprydnader, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TIRES": tiresome, tiresomely, tiresomeness, tiresomenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TIRES": attires, entires, overtires, retires, saltires, satires. (additional references) | |
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"TIRES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iturbes, Jires, taire, tarres, tdrs, teares, tearse, teres, terras, thress, tiern, timress, tipret, tiraz, tiree, tiren, tirer, tirers, tiret, tirey, Tirez, tiri, tirls, tiros, tirret, tirrets, tirric, tirs, tirze, tites, tiwes, toire, Toireasa, toras, tores, torez, trirex, tris, trites, tritest, trois, tsiree, turse, twires, tyers, tyres, tyrus, Tyser, uires, zires. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TIRES" (pronounced tī"erz) |
| 3 | -ī" er z | acquires, aspires, buyers, desires, dryers, expires, fires, fliers, flyers, friars, fryers, hires, inquires, liars, pliers, Priors, requires, Spiers, Squires, suppliers, transpires, wires. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rites, tiers, tries. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: erst, ires, reis, rest, rets, rise, rite, sire, site, stir, tier, ties, tire. | |
-2 letters: ers, ire, its, rei, res, ret, sei, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tie, tis. | |
-3 letters: er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airest, bestir, bister, bistre, biters, citers, direst, driest, esprit, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, kiters, lister, liters, litres, merits, mister, miters, mitres, niters, nitres, priest, refits, relist, remits, resift, resist, resite, reties, rifest, ripest, ritzes, rivets, satire, sifter, sinter, sister, sitter, smiter, sortie, sprite, steric, stiver, striae, stride, strife, strike, stripe, strive, suiter, terais, theirs, tigers, tilers, timers, titers, titres, tories, tribes, trices, triens, triers, trikes, trines, triose, tripes, triste, twiers, verist, wriest, writes. | |
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