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

   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 246633669, 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. Formal citizenship is conferred at the third tier, after boot camp. For client races, citizenship is granted after the individual musters out. Higher-ranked citizens are expected to lead and protect subordinates. Lower-ranking citizens are expected to obey and support superiors. Promotion to another tier of citizenship is based on the personal assessments of one's superiors and co-rankers.

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

• 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, worth about £1 in Britain.
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