tier
tier¹
Definition
tier (tir)
noun
- a row, or rank, of seats
- any of a series of rows, layers, ranks, etc. arranged one above or behind another
Etymology: < OFr tire, order, rank, dress < Frank *teri (akin to OHG ziari, beauty, OE tir, glory) < IE *dēiro- < base *dei-, to gleam > deity
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to arrange or be arranged in tiers
tier²
Definition
tier (tī′ər)
noun
- a person or thing that ties
- ☆ a type of pinafore formerly worn by children
tier
Synonyms
tier
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- windbraces: Roof of four and a half bays with arch-braced collar trusses and raking struts, flat purlins and two tiers of cusped windbraces.
- lucarne: Three tiers of lucarnes, two in the main directions, the third in the diagonals.
- bureaucracy: At present, targets are all too conflicting, serving no real purpose, creating an additional tier of bureaucracy.
- seating: The first floor of the stadium has the bottom tier of seating and directors seating area.
- government: A generic infrastructure body at every tier of government?
Object
- seating: The theater will seat 250 of which 160 will be on tiered retractable seating.
- skirt: This was worn with a clashing tiered mixed-up print skirt.
- auditorium: AUDITORIUM ~ Overview The 900 seat tiered auditorium with its classic art deco style has excellent acoustics and views.
- cake: The traditional wedding cake is a tiered white cake with butter cream icing.
Adjective modifier
- upper: Once the upper tier is full, access to lower tier can be made from same entrance.
- topmost: The spectators were seated in its terraces; women and plebeians ( plebs ) were confined to the topmost tier of seats.
- intermediate: The possibility of standard regions as an intermediate tier between central and local government might usefully be considered.
- middle: The middle tier of the system is the Application Server Layer.
- top: We'll make the top tier first, which is the smallest.
- second: They are the people in Labor's second tier Britain.
Modifies a noun
- workforce: This ends the two tier workforce for future PPP contracts.
- bunk: The large bedroom is designed as a family room and has a double bed and the two tier bunk.
- cake: A splendid vintage Art Deco, two tier cake stand, dating to circa 1934.
- affiliate: A trustful two tier affiliate program will pay you 15-45 % in residual commissions.
Noun used with modifier
- pricing: Pricing tier for role of the renewal plan we.
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