Tierce meaning

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A measure of liquid capacity, equal to a third of a pipe, or 42 gallons (159 liters).
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A sequence of three cards of the same suit.
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An interval of a third.
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A third.
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An old unit of liquid measure, equal to13 pipe (42 gallons)
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A cask of this capacity, between a barrel and a hogshead in size.
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The third defensive position, from which a lunge or parry can be made.
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A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.
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A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
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(music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
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(card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
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(fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
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(heraldry) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
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(religion, Roman Catholic) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
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The third position from which a parry or thrust can be made in fencing.
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Origin of tierce

  • Middle English from Old French from feminine of tiers third from Latin tertius trei- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Old French tierce.
    From Wiktionary

Tierce Sentence Examples

  • Even in this peal, Taylors were not tuning the tierce to the theoretical value.

  • The hum and the tierce in the chimed bell do not affect the initial sensation of pitch, despite the loudness of these partials.

  • It does affect the timbre - bells with a major tierce have a clearly different quality than those with minor tierces.

  • In bell founding these partials have acquired their own names of hum tone, prime, tierce, quint, and nominal.

  • From the chart, one can see that the nominal, tierce and prime were barely touched, the hum lowered a little.

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