tier

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English

Etymology 1

From tie +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: tī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: tī'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tire, tyre
• Rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. One who ties (knots, etc).
2. Something that ties.
3. (archaic) A child's apron.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪə/
• (US) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
• Hyphenation: tier

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
2. A rank or grade; a stratum.
3. (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. [from 19th c.]
4. A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in layers.
2. (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
3. (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

References

• Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.

Pronunciation

Noun

tier (plural tiere or tiers)

1. tiger
2. leopard

   Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +‎ er.

Alternative forms

• 10'er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːˀər/, [ˈtˢiˀɐ]

Noun

tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)

1. ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
2. ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
3. number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
4. (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)

Declension

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːər/, [ˈtˢiːɐ]
• Homophone: tiger

Verb

tier

1. present tense of tie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ir

Verb

tier

1. inflection of tieren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• riet

Ladin

Etymology

From Middle High German tier, from Old High German tior, from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm.

Noun

tier m (plural tieres)

1. (gherdëina, badiot) animal
2. A person who has a quality thought of as animalistic, such as ferocity, strength, hairiness, etc.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)

1. a ten kroner coin
2. something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

Verb

tier

1. present of tie

References

• “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tier.

Noun

tier m (plural tiers)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
• (Sursilvan) bestia
• (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha