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Tire


Definition:

  • (n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
  • (n.) Attire; apparel.
  • (n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
  • (n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
  • (n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
  • (n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
  • (v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.
  • (v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  • (v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  • (v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
  • (v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
  • (2) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
  • (3) According to articles presented by Breitbart, Clinton is tired and ailing.
  • (4) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
  • (5) I’m personally sick and tired of Pristina and Belgrade, because we’ve been victimised by high politicians.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The bridge connecting the Albanian and Serb parts of Mitrovica.
  • (6) An example calculation of rolling resistance for a polyurethane tire is given in detail.
  • (7) The extent of inadequate rest has prompted fears that many people are too tired to do their jobs properly, with some so sleep-deprived their brains are as confused as if they had consumed too much alcohol.
  • (8) Do you not get tired of the mass surveillance in this country?” Finicum told reporters.
  • (9) We’re tired of answering these questions,” one woman said.
  • (10) I’m tired, man.” But he hopes that it might be done quickly.
  • (11) I, along with many others, am tired of this toxic propaganda.
  • (12) Further the diabetics claimed to be more tired and diabetic males had more sexual concerns.
  • (13) Apart from that, it’s becoming increasingly tiring to see people posing about how there is no point voting because it’s all rigged, the politicians are all the same and the rest.
  • (14) In any case, people had tired of combative rhetoric and wanted softer platitudes.
  • (15) There is no guarantee of surgical success with such an injury but Murray was tiring of the constant reliance on pain killers to get through tough matches.
  • (16) The concentrations of 1-NP and airborne particulates changed significantly in all examined areas in parallel with the rise and fall of the frequencies of studded tire use.
  • (17) Transposable and interspersed repetitive elements (TIREs) are ubiquitous features of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
  • (18) The players come to Australia tired and exhausted already because they’ve been going since mid-November.” Another issue is the way the women treat their practice time.
  • (19) But when you're tired, you've played in 94 or 95 minutes, players choose power rather than technique, rather than placing it.
  • (20) On the return journey, the tired passengers exchange smuggling anecdotes and safety tips.

Tread


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
  • (v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
  • (v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
  • (v. t.) To step or walk on.
  • (v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
  • (v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  • (v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
  • (n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
  • (n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
  • (n.) Way; track; path.
  • (n.) The act of copulation in birds.
  • (n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
  • (n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
  • (n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
  • (n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
  • (n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
  • (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
  • (2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
  • (3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
  • (4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
  • (5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
  • (6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
  • (7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
  • (8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
  • (9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
  • (10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
  • (11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
  • (12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
  • (13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
  • (14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
  • (15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
  • (16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
  • (17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
  • (18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
  • (19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
  • (20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.

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