tier

See also: Tier

English

Etymology 1

From tie +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) enPR: tī'ər, (General American) 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

• leaf tier

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

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

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• 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.

   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^[1]:

     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.

4. A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.

Derived terms

• bottom-tier
• cable-tier
• free-tier
• god tier
• mid-tier
• multitier
• n-tier
• second-tier
• S-tier
• subtier
• third-tier
• tier list
• top tier, top-tier
• two-tier
• two-tiered
• two-tier Keir
• Web-tier

Translations

layer or rank

• Bulgarian: ниво (bg) n (nivo)
• Catalan: rang (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: lag (da)
• Dutch: laag (nl) f, rang (nl) m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tavolo (eo), ^{(please verify)} etaĝo
• Finnish: kerros (fi), taso (fi)
• French: rang (fr) m
• German: Schicht (de) f, Rang (de) m, Etage (de) f, Ebene (de) f, Reihe (de) f, Sitzreihe (de) m
• Hebrew: קוֹמָה (he) f, נִדְבָּךְ (he) m, שִׁכְבָה (he) f
• Hungarian: szint (hu), réteg (hu), emelet (hu), sor (hu), üléssor (hu), polcsor (hu)
• Italian: strato (it), 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)
• Kazakh: қабат (qabat)
• Maori: tānga
• Middle English: stage
• Plautdietsch: Schicht f
• Polish: warstwa (pl), rząd (np. krzeseł), kondygnacja (pl), poziom (pl)
• Portuguese: camada (pt) f
• Russian: я́рус (ru) m (járus), слой (ru) m (sloj) (layer), у́ровень (ru) m (úrovenʹ) (level), ряд (ru) m (rjad) (row), эта́ж (ru) m (etáž) (floor, storey)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етажа f

  Roman: etaža (sh) f

• Spanish: piso (es) m, rango (es) m, nivel (es) m, categoría (es) f, grado (es) m
• Swedish: skikt (sv), lager (sv)
• Turkish: tabaka (tr)
• 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.
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 regional/archaic Dutch ti(e)ger, a byform of tijger, from Middle Dutch tîger, from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris, which see. The undiphthongized form may be either dialectal or due to the chiefly learned use of the word. (The hypothesis that -g- fell before diphthongization and the monophthong was then protected by the final -r is unlikely, because loss of intervocalic /ɣ/ is a more recent development.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tir/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Declension of tier

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tier	tieren	tiere	tierne
genitive	tiers	tierens	tieres	tiernes

See also

Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
es	toer	treer	firer	femmer	sekser	syver
otter	nier	tier	knægt, bonde	dame, dronning	konge	joker

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tier

1. present tense of tie

References

• “tier” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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.

   Ël lëura sciche n tier.

   He works like an animal.

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