tier
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: tī'ə(r), IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) enPR: tī'ər, IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
- Hyphenation: tier
- Homophones: tire, tyre
- Rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
Noun edit
tier (plural tiers)
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Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA(key): /ˈtɪə/
- (US) enPR: tîr, IPA(key): /ˈtɪɚ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
- Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
- Hyphenation: tier
Noun edit
tier (plural tiers)
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- 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.
- (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.
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Verb edit
tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)
- (transitive) To arrange in layers.
- (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
- (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
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Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.
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Audio (file)
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Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
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tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)
- ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
- ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
- number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
- (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)
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See also edit
Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text) | ||||||
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es | toer | treer | firer | femmer | sekser | syver |
otter | nier | tier | knægt, bonde | dame, dronning | konge | joker |
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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tier
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tier
- inflection of tieren:
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Etymology edit
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 edit
tier m (plural tieres)
- (gherdëina, badiot) animal
- 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 edit
Noun edit
tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)
Verb edit
tier
References edit
- “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romansch edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tier m (plural tiers)