What's the difference between tyre and wheel?

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.

Wheel


Definition:

  • (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
  • (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.
  • (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
  • (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.
  • (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.
  • (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
  • (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
  • (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
  • (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
  • (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
  • (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
  • (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.
  • (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
  • (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.
  • (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.
  • (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
  • (v. i.) To roll forward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (2) From the standpoint of breakeven facts and resource efficiency the minicenter and clinic-on-wheels were similar and superior to the other two.
  • (3) Among the improved patients, eight became ambulatory and independent in activities of daily living (ADL), eight became independent from a wheel-chair level, and eight returned home or to the community.
  • (4) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
  • (5) The chicks were individually placed in running wheels for 2 x 1 hr, 24 hr before testing.
  • (6) A total of 60 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned at 6 weeks of age to a sedentary control group (n = 22) or to a group with unlimited access to a running wheel (n = 38).
  • (7) The relatively conservative behavior of these mice in selecting between multiple sources of food and water and different types of activity wheels suggests the need for careful experimental design in free-choice studies with inexperienced animals.
  • (8) Of course, if the wheels are falling off the regime, people will try to find a way out, but it is much more likely that they will simply defect, rather than try to pull off a coup and then negotiate a deal for the regime.
  • (9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
  • (10) Blinded female reats were placed in running-wheel cages to monitor the phase of their activity cycle.
  • (11) Cells have been injected iontophoretically with the calcium sensitive metallochromic dye arsenazo III and changes in differential absorbance have been measured using a spinning wheel microspectrophotometer.
  • (12) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
  • (13) The 2008 financial crisis saw countries adopt extreme measures to keep the economic wheels turning, for example by reducing interest rates to record lows , pumping billions into the system through quantitative easing in the US, Japan, the UK and the euro-area, and striking trade deals to open markets further.
  • (14) The causes of barotrauma were: 1) Undue length of the tube pressed by machine's wheel which connect the ventilator to the anesthesia machine.
  • (15) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.
  • (16) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
  • (17) Last month, neighbours watched in silence as her bloodstained body was wheeled out of the front door of the small house she shared with her two daughters on the outskirts of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
  • (18) This tends to push buyers behind the wheel of a diesel, which usually produces less CO2 than an equivalent petrol.
  • (19) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
  • (20) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.