tier

tie +‎ -er

• (UK) enPR: tī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

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

tier (plural tiers)

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

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪə/
• (US) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
• Hyphenation: tier

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.

   Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry:

     Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier.

   • 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian‎:

     At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.

3. (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. [from 19th c.]
   • 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:

     This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.

   • 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:

     On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.

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.

• Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

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tier (plural tiere or tiers)

1. tiger
2. leopard

   Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

From ti (“ten”) +‎ er.

• 10'er

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːˀər/, [ˈtˢiˀɐ]

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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

tier

1. present tense of tie

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• Rhymes: -ir

tier

1. inflection of tieren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• riet

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

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.

   Ël lëura sciche n tier.

   He works like an animal.

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)

tier

1. present of tie

• “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Tier.

tier m (plural tiers)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

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