Tire vs. Flag — What's the Difference?

A tire (American English) or tyre (British English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel travels. Most tires, such as those for automobiles and bicycles, are pneumatically inflated structures, which also provide a flexible cushion that absorbs shock as the tire rolls over rough features on the surface.

A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration.

Feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep

A piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities

Lose interest in; become bored with

A small piece of cloth attached at one edge to a pole and used as a marker or signal in various sports

US spelling of tyre

A variable used to indicate a particular property of the data in a record.

To lose energy or strength; grow weary

A flat stone slab, typically rectangular or square, used for paving.

To grow bored or impatient

A plant with sword-shaped leaves that grow from a rhizome.

To diminish the energy or strength; fatigue

Mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way

To exhaust the interest or patience of.

Signal to a vehicle or driver to stop, especially by waving one's arm

To adorn or attire.

Provide or decorate with a flag or flags.

A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with compressed air.

Become tired or less enthusiastic or dynamic

A hoop of metal or rubber fitted around a wheel.

A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.

Attire.

National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag

A headband or headdress.

A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.

A marking device, such as a gummed strip of paper, attached to an object to attract attention or ease identification; a tab.

(transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

The masthead of a newspaper.

(intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).

(Music) A cross stroke that halves the value of a note to which it is added.

(transitive) To bore.

A distinctively shaped or marked tail, as of a dog or deer.

To dress or adorn.

(Computers) A variable or memory location that stores true-or-false, yes-or-no information.

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

A plant, such as an iris or cattail, that has long sword-shaped leaves.

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

A flagstone.

Alternative spelling of tyre#Etymology 1: The rubber covering on a wheel.

To mark with a flag or flags for identification or ornamentation

(American spelling) tyre#Etymology 1: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.

To signal with or as if with a flag.

A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

To signal to stop

(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

To lose vigor or strength; weaken or diminish

(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.

To pave with slabs of flagstone.

A covering for the head; a headdress.

A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).

Attire; apparel.

(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.

A covering for the head; a headdress.

A signal flag.

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

The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment.

(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.

A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre.

(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

To adorn; to attire; to dress.

(aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

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

The game of capture the flag.

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

(geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.

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

A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.

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.

(television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.

Hoop that covers a wheel;

An apron.

Get tired of something or somebody

A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.

Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;

Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.

Deplete;

A slice of turf; a sod.

Cause to be bored

A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.

(geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

To furnish or deck out with flags.

To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.

(often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.

(computing) To signal (an event).

(computing) To set a program variable to true.

To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.

(sports) To penalize for an infraction.

To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.

To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.

(firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.

To fail, such as a class or an exam.

(intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.

To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.

(transitive) To pave with flagstones.

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.

To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab.

To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.

To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity.

To furnish or deck out with flags.

To lay with flags of flat stones.

That which flags or hangs down loosely.

A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; - commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; - called also flag feather.

An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.

A flat stone used for paving.

Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design

Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

A rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device

A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.

Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones

A conspicuously marked or shaped tail

Communicate or signal with a flag

Provide with a flag;

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

Decorate with flags;

Become less intense