What's the difference between tyke and tyre?

Tyke


Definition:

  • (n.) See 2d Tike.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Zaillian (Schindler's List) will be responsible for translating Peace's own distinctive brand of Tyke noir into an American setting.
  • (2) It was just one of the guerrilla tactics deployed by the typically tenacious tykes.
  • (3) As a young tyke at Tony Blair's Number 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis was the architect of the academies programme.

Tyre


Definition:

  • () Curdled milk.
  • (n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.
  • (v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aedes aegypti and Toxorhynchites splendens were found only in discarded tyres.
  • (2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
  • (3) Called a truck stand, it involves balancing on the front tyre with your hands in the air.
  • (4) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (5) When four leather strips were tied to the back tyre of the bicycle before laying the track, the one dog tested took the correct direction significantly more often than predicted by random choice.
  • (6) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
  • (7) Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.
  • (8) Switching to the faster soft tyre for runs in FP2, Hamilton again comfortably had the edge by 0.443sec over Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
  • (9) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
  • (10) They reportedly threw rocks and paint at the car before smashing a window and slashing one of its tyres.
  • (11) When her car broke down, she ended up out of work with other labourers on a pea-picking farm, selling her tyres to buy food.
  • (12) The Formula One tyre manufacturer, Pirelli, expressed concerns at the decision and has warned that any decrease in viewing figures would lead to difficulties.
  • (13) The group's senior UK executives have privately told MPs in the West Midlands for months that the pound's fluctuations were undermining a plant that has exported more than 300m tyres since it opened in 1927.
  • (14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
  • (15) "I was getting cards saying 'I hope you die in an ambulance on the way to hospital now you have closed this one… ' I had my car tyres slashed, 'Bitch' written on my windows, and 'Shut your effing mouth'."
  • (16) The eight Goodyear tyre factory workers held two managers hostage in a meeting room for 30 hours in a high-profile “bossnapping” incident in the northern town of Amiens in 2014.
  • (17) Vettel was fourth on the timesheet, 1.120sec down, with Rosberg fifth after making a mistake on his fast lap on the soft tyres.
  • (18) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
  • (19) He singled out measures taken against China’s steel, solar panel, ceramics and tyre industries.
  • (20) They tied up Badus and Amisi's wife, put them inside a tyre and burned them alive.