Tire vs. Wheel — 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.

Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle;

Feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep

In its primitive form, a wheel is a circular block of a hard and durable material at whose center has been bored a hole through which is placed an axle bearing about which the wheel rotates when torque is applied to the wheel about its axis. The wheel and axle assembly can be considered one of the six simple machines.

Lose interest in; become bored with

A circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground

US spelling of tyre

A machine or structure having a wheel as its essential part.

To lose energy or strength; grow weary

A car

To grow bored or impatient

A thing resembling a wheel, in particular a cheese made in the form of a shallow disc

To diminish the energy or strength; fatigue

An instance of wheeling; a turn or rotation.

To exhaust the interest or patience of.

Short for big wheel (sense 2)

To adorn or attire.

A set of short lines, typically five in number and rhyming, concluding the stanza of a poem.

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

Push or pull (a vehicle with wheels)

A hoop of metal or rubber fitted around a wheel.

(of a bird or aircraft) fly in a wide circle or curve

Attire.

A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center.

A headband or headdress.

The steering device on a vehicle.

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.

A potter's wheel.

(transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

A water wheel.

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

A spinning wheel.

(transitive) To bore.

(Games) A device used in roulette and other games of chance.

To dress or adorn.

A firework that rotates while burning.

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

(Informal) A bicycle.

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

A large, roughly circular block of cheese.

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

A wheel-shaped instrument on which victims were bound for torture and execution in medieval and early modern Europe.

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

Wheels Forces that provide energy, movement, or direction

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

The act or process of turning; revolution or rotation.

(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

A military maneuver executed in order to change the direction of movement of a formation, as of troops or ships, in which the formation is maintained while the outer unit describes an arc and the inner or center unit remains stationary as a pivot.

(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.

Wheels(Slang) A motor vehicle or access thereto

A covering for the head; a headdress.

(Slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.

Attire; apparel.

To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

A covering for the head; a headdress.

To provide with wheels or a wheel.

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

To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment.

To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.

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.

To fly in a curving or circular course

To adorn; to attire; to dress.

To turn or whirl around in place; pivot

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

To reverse one's opinion or practice

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

A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.

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

A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.

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.

(nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.

Hoop that covers a wheel;

A spinning wheel.

Get tired of something or somebody

A potter's wheel.

Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;

The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.

Deplete;

(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.

Cause to be bored

A superuser on certain systems.

(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.

(automotive) A wheelrim.

A round portion of cheese.

A Catherine wheel firework.

(obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.

A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.

(figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.

A dollar.

A crown coin; a "cartwheel".

A bicycle or tricycle.

A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.

(transitive) To roll along on wheels.

(transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.

To ride a bicycle or tricycle.

(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.

(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.

(intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.

(transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.

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.

Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.

A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.

A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.

An instrument of torture formerly used.

A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.

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.

A turn revolution; rotation; compass.

A potter's wheel. See under Potter.

A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.

The burden or refrain of a song.

To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.

To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.

To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.

To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.

To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

To roll forward.

A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)

A handwheel that is used for steering

A circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel

Game equipment consisting of a rotating wheel with slots that is used for gambling; players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in

An instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

Change directions as if revolving on a pivot;

Wheel somebody or something

Ride a bicycle