tyrenoun [ C ]
UK US tire uk/taɪər/us/taɪr/A2 a thick rubber ring, often filled with air, that is fitted around the outer edge of the wheel of a vehicle, allowing the vehicle to stick to the road surface and to travel over the ground more easily:
I've got a flat tyre (= the air has gone out of it).
He was driving along the motorway when his tyre burst.
I keep a spare tyre in the back of the car.
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- He clipped the edge of the kerb with his front tyre.
- He was driving so fast that his car tyre exploded.
- I've no idea how to set about changing a tyre on a car.
- I got a flat tyre after driving over a nail.
- Police found tyre tracks in the mud.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The exterior of vehicles
- brake light
- bull bar
- bumper sticker
- inner tube
- Klaxon
- licence plate
- license plate number
- offside
- petrol cap
- radial
- retread
- roll bar
- roof
- roof rack
- side mirror
- splash guard
- stepney
- vanity plates
- wing
- wing mirror
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