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tiro

Tyro \Ty"ro\, n.; pl. Tyros. [L. tiro a newlylevied soldier, a beginner.] A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also tiro.]

The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult.
--Cowper.

Wiktionary
tiro

n. 1 A newly recruited soldier. 2 A novice without practical experience.

WordNet
tiro
  1. n. someone new to a field or activity [syn: novice, beginner, tyro, initiate]

  2. [also: tyros (pl)]

Gazetteer
Tiro, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 281
Housing Units (2000): 109
Land area (2000): 0.411789 sq. miles (1.066528 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.411789 sq. miles (1.066528 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76932
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.906753 N, 82.772054 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44887
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Tiro (disambiguation)

Tiro may refer to:

  • Tiro, Guinea, a town
  • Marcus Tullius Tiro (died 4 BC), slave, later freedman, of Cicero
  • Tirones, new recruits in the armies of the Roman Empire

Usage examples of "tiro".

His intimates were gladiatorial stars like Mustela and Tiro, freedmen like Formio and Gnatho, actress-whores like Cytheris, actors like Hippias, mimes like Sergius, and gamblers like Licinius Denticulus.

His intimates were gladiatorial stars like Mustela and Tiro, freedmen like Formio and Gnatho, actress-whores like Cytheris, actors like Hippias, mimes like Sergius, and gamblers like Licinius Denticulus.

Su un tavolo in anticamera notai una comunicazione inviata a Betsey per la partecipa­zione alla prossima esercitazione obbligatoria di tiro a segno nel poligono dell'FBI.

A la edad de treinta años, al enterarse de que su anciana madre -a quien quería con una devoción exagerada estaba al borde de la muerte, puso fin a su prometedora carrera literaria pegándose un tiro.

El lector recordará que me cercaron, que tiré al aire un tiro de fusil y que tomaron la descarga por una suerte de trueno mágico.

This was a long time before the advent of the computer and the facsimile machine and TIROS and all the other handy little gadgets that have since come reasonably close to turning meteorology into an exact science.

Jo-Beth gli si premette contro con un impeto pari solo al suo e i loro denti si tocca­rono, le loro lingue giocarono al tiro alla fune.

In addition, the games in the provinces served to give the tiros a chance to work as a team and to watch the professionals at their trade.

Jubala, from where he exercised with the tiros of the second degree of proficiency, also watched, puzzled by the yellow man and wondering what value he had to the tough soldier.

E d'altro canto che cos'avrei potuto fare da solo, se mi fossi trovato al cospetto di venti o trenta uomini, armati di lance, archi e frecce, coi quali costoro sanno colpire il bersaglio con la stessa precisione di un tiro del mio fucile?