tier

See also Tier

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

to tie + -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: tī'ə(r), IPA: /ˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"taI.@(r\)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"taI.@`/
• Homophones: tire, tyre

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. One who ties (knots, etc).
2. Something that ties.

Etymology 2

Maybe from Middle French, from Old French tirer, "draw, pull out".

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: tî, IPA: /ˈtɪə/, X-SAMPA: /"tI@/
• (US) enPR: tîr, IPA: /ˈtɪɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"tI@`/
• Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.

Translations

layer or rank

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 層 (cmn), 层 (cmn) (céng), 排 (cmn) (pái) (row), 行 (cmn) (háng)

• Danish: lag (da)
• Dutch: laag (nl) f, rang (nl) m
• Finnish: kerros (fi), taso (fi)
• French: rang (fr) m
• German: Schicht (de) f, Rang (de) m, Etage (de) f
• Italian: strato, ripiano (it)
• Japanese: 層 (ja) (そう, sō), 階層 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō), 列 (ja) (れつ, retsu), 階 (ja) (かい, kai)

• Polish: warstwa, rząd (np. krzeseł), kondygnacja, poziom
• Portuguese: camada f
• Russian: ярус (ru) (járus) m, слой (ru) (sloj) m (layer), уровень (ru) (úrovenʹ) m (level), ряд (ru) (rjad) m (row), этаж (ru) (etáž) m (floor, storey)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етажа (sh) f

  Roman: etaža (sh) f

• Spanish: capa (es) f, enlace (es) m
• Swedish: skikt (sv), lager (sv)
• Vietnamese: tầng (vi), bậc (vi), thứ bậc (vi)

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.

Anagrams

• REIT
• rite
• Teri
• tire
• trie

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Afrikaans

Noun

tier (plural tiere)

1. tiger

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Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +‎ -er

Alternative forms

• 10'er

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tiːər/, [ˈtˢiːˀɐ]

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)

Inflection

    Inflection of tier

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	tier	tieren	tiere	tierne
genitive	tiers	tierens	tieres	tiernes

See also

• tikrone

Etymology 2

See tie (“be silent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tiːər/, [ˈtˢiːɐ]
• Homophone: tiger

Verb

tier

1. present of tie

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Dutch

Verb

tier

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

Anagrams

• riet

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Romansch

Etymology

Borrowing 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