BrainyQuote
Home - Quote of the Day - Topics - Authors - Pictures - Words - Quiz - Professions - Birthdays
Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Definition of Tire
Tire
A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

Attire; apparel.

A covering for the head; a headdress.

A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment.

A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

To adorn; to attire; to dress.

To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

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.


Related Definitions:
Adorn, And, Anything, Apparatus, Apparel, Apron, As, Attention, Attire, Band, Be, Become, By, Child, Circumference, Covering, Does, Dress, Engaged, Equipment, Exhaust, Exhausted, Fail, Fatigue, Fatigued, Feeble, Fixed, For, Furniture, Have, Having, Hawk, Head, Headdress, Hoop, Impart, Interest, Jade, Labor, Like, Metal, No, Of, On, One, Or, Out, Patience, Person, Pinafore, Prey, Pull, Rank, Receive, Rend, Row, See, Seize, Something, Soon, Strength, Tear, The, Tier, To, Toil, Upon, Vehicle, Wear, Weary, Wheel, With


Tire Quotations
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
Ho Chi Minh

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
John Irving

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Christopher Lasch

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Laurence Sterne

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.
Joe Henderson

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
John Dyer

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
Peter Shaffer

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.
Mohamed El-Erian

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
John Webster

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
George Edward Woodberry

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.
Sterling Marlin

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Richards

You must never tire fighting Satan.
Abraham Cahan

When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
Buck Baker

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
Roy Orbison

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
Saddam Hussein

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
John Petit-Senn

He who does not tire, tires adversity.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.
Jonathan Gilbert

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.
Tim Flock

More Tire Quotations

Tire Translations
tire in French is fatiguer, pneu, pneumatique
tire in Italian is faticare
tire in Spanish is cansar






Share with your Friends
Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.


BrainyQuoteBrainyQuote

Site
Home
Quote of the Day
Topics
Authors
Pictures
Words
Quiz
Professions
Birthdays

Mobile
BrainyQuote Mobile

Social
BQ on Facebook
BQ on Twitter
BQ on Pinterest
BQ on Google+
BQ on Tumblr

Syndication
Quote of the Day Feed
Art Quote of the Day
Funny Quote of the Day
Love Quote of the Day
Nature Quote of the Day

About Us
Our Story
Inquire
Advertise
Submit
Privacy
Terms

Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote     BookRags Media Network