tireとは

語源 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from 古期英語 tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *tiuzōną (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewH- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).^[1]

別の表記

• tyre (dialectal)

動詞

tire (三人称単数 現在形 tires, 現在分詞 tiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 tired)

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
   • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.

2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with)

   I tire of this book.

4. (transitive) To bore

同意語

• Thesaurus:fatigue

関連する語

• tiresome

参照

語源 2

From Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire

別の表記

• (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

名詞

tire (複数形 tires)

1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
   • Philips

     the tire of war

2. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, または 3):
     , New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:

     men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

3. A covering for the head; a headdress.
   • Spenser

     On her head she wore a tire of gold.

4. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
5. (Canada, 米国用法) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
6. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

使用する際の注意点

• Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

派生語

動詞

tire (三人称単数 現在形 tires, 現在分詞 tiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 tired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
   • Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30

     [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

関連する語

• tiring-house

語源 3

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw または pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

別の表記

• tyre

動詞

tire (三人称単数 現在形 tires, 現在分詞 tiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 tired)

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
   • Shakespeare

     Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

   • Ben Jonson

     Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.

2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
   • Chapman

     Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.

   • Shakespeare

     Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

名詞

tire (複数形 tires)

1. A tier, row, or rank.
   • Milton

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Further reading

• tire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• tire in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie