hierarchy Definition
hi·er·ar·chy (hī′ər är′kē)
noun pl. -·chies
- a system of church government by priests or other clergy in graded ranks
- the group of officials, esp. the highest officials, in such a system
- a group of persons or things arranged in order of rank, grade, class, etc.
Etymology: altered (modeled on Gr) < ME ierarchie < OFr jerarchie < ML(Ec) hierarchia < LGr(Ec), power or rule of a hierarch < Gr hierarchēs: see hierarch
hierarchy Synonyms
hierarchy
n.
hierarchy Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- widget: WIDGETS In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which compose xclock.
- heading: The logical structure of a document is defined visually, typically through a hierarchy of headings ( headings of different sizes or weights ).
Converse of object
- flatten: But the frustration of managers at the slowing of their career progress since hierarchies flattened is unlikely to result in those levels being reinstated.
- upset: That certain way includes among other things; not upsetting the current hierarchy of power.
- nest: Collaborative Book The book feature organizes content into a nested hierarchy.
- imply: There is no hierarchy implied by the title, the President's distinctive role will only be to represent the Society if required.
- establish: Newly mixed pigs fight to establish a hierarchy which is based on weight - the heaviest being more dominant.
Preposition: in
formulation: Is there in practice a hierarchy in the formulation of different types of environmental plans?
Adjective modifier
- taxonomic: Browsing can be done by taxonomic hierarchy, concepts hierarchy, by curriculum, or by biology course.
- rigid: The same remarks apply to a society that is caste-based, or has any other rigid hierarchy to social status.
- Catholic: Remember, Elgar's parish church had been built only shortly after the early 19th century restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England.
- ecclesiastical: The government surveyed rural monasteries and schools, and reconstituted the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
- three-level: Clusters Areas are grouped into a three-level hierarchy of clusters, within which areas share similar combinations of characteristics.
- object-based: Suppose vendor A creates an object-based hierarchy that includes a useful set of containers including one you want to use called Holder.
Noun used with modifier
- widget: From within X-Designer, you can turn a widget hierarchy into a definition to be used later in other designs.
- inheritance: These concepts are discussed in Chapter 4. Furthermore, several ways to represent inheritance hierarchies are investigated in section 4.3.
- dominance: On a slightly different theme: Is there a dominance hierarchy among the species on your feeder?
- caste: But in practice a local caste hierarchy may correspond only very loosely with the ideal.
- waste: The ' waste hierarchy ' shown below places incineration second to last.
- directory: These files are generated into several subdirectories, according to LEIF's standard project directory hierarchy.
Browse dictionary entries near hierarchy
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- ‹ hierarchal
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- ‹ hier-
- ‹ hiemal
- ‹ hie
- ‹ hidy-hole
- ‹ hidrotic
- ‹ hidrosis
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