tier

See also: Tier

English

Etymology 1

tie +‎ -er

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: tī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
(US) enPR: tī'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
Hyphenation: tier
Homophones: tire, tyre

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle French, Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪə/
(US) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪɚ/
Hyphenation: tier
Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from tier

free-tier

mid-tier

Web-tier

Translations

layer or rank

Catalan: rang m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 層 (zh), 层 (zh) (céng), 排 (zh) (pái) (row), 行 (zh) (háng)
Danish: lag (da)
Dutch: laag (nl) f, rang (nl) m
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} tavolo, ^{(please verify)} etaĝo
Finnish: kerros (fi), taso (fi)
French: rang (fr) m
German: Schicht (de) f, Rang (de) m, Etage (de) f
Hebrew: דַּרְגָּה‎‎ f, רָמָה‎‎ (he) f, שִׁכְבָה‎‎ (he) f
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)

Maori: tānga
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
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)

(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.

References

Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Noun

tier (plural tiere)

tiger

Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +‎ -er

Alternative forms

10'er

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiːər/, [ˈtˢiːˀɐ]

Noun

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)

Inflection

Declension of tier

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

Etymology 2

See tie (“be silent”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tier

present tense of tie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Verb

tier

first-person singular present indicative of tieren
imperative of tieren

Anagrams

riet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)

a ten kroner coin, worth about £1 in Britain.
something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

Verb

tier

present tense of tie

References

“tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tier.

Noun

tier m (plural tiers)

(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

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Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)

es	toer	treer	firer	femmer	sekser	syver

otter	nier	tier	knægt, bonde	dame, dronning	konge	joker