Tier
/ˈtaɪ.ə/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who ties (knots, etc.).
- 2 A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- 3 one of two or more layers one atop another wordnet
- 4 Something that ties.
- 5 A rank or grade; a stratum.
"Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League."
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- 6 something that is used for tying wordnet
- 7 A child's apron. archaic
- 8 A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. Australia
"This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell."
- 9 a worker who ties something wordnet
- 10 A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- 11 any one of two or more competitors who tie one another wordnet
- 12 a relative position or degree of value in a graded group wordnet
Verb
- 1 To arrange in layers. transitive
- 2 To cascade in an overlapping sequence. transitive
- 3 To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed. transitive
Example
More examples"John is obsessed about getting into a top tier university."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From tie + -er.
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”).