tier (redirected from tiering)

tier ¹  (tîr)

n.

1. One of a series of rows placed one above another: a stadium with four tiers of seats.

2. A rank or class.

tr. & intr.v. tiered, tier·ing, tiers

To arrange (something) into or rise in tiers: tier a wedding cake; balconies that tier upward.

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[Middle English tire, row, rank, from Old French, from tirer, to draw out; see tirade.]

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ti·er ²  (tr)

n.

One that ties: a tier of knots.

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tier¹

n

1. one of a set of rows placed one above and behind the other, such as theatre seats

2.

a.  a layer or level

b.  (in combination) a three-tier cake

3. a rank, order, or row

vb

to be or arrange in tiers

[from Old French tire rank, of Germanic origin; compare Old English tīr embellishment]

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tier²

n

a person or thing that ties

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Tier a row or rank; a series; ships moored or at anchor, 1732.

Examples: tier of galleries; of guns; of organ pipes; of shelves; of shipping (moored), 1858; of snakes, 1646; of theatre boxes; the lower tier of society, 1882.

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tier - From French tire, "order, sequence."

See also related terms for sequence.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tier - a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" grade, level biosafety level - the level of safety from exposure to infectious agents; depends on work practices and safety equipment and facilities rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority" A level - the advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level) GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, O level - the basic level of a subject taken in school college level - the level of education that college students are assumed to have attained
	2.	tier - any one of two or more competitors who tie one another challenger, competitor, contender, rival, competition - the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
	3.	tier - a worker who ties something tier up worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	4.	tier - something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers" rope - a strong line
	5.	tier - one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake" layer, bed - single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"

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tier

noun row, bank, layer, line, order, level, series, file, rank, storey, stratum, echelon an auditorium with tiers of seats around and above it

Translations

tier [tɪəʳ] N

1. (in stadium, amphitheatre) (= row of seats) → grada f; [of cake] → piso m
to arrange in tiers → disponer en gradas or pisos

2. (fig) (in management, system) → nivel m
a two-tier health service → un sistema sanitario que hace distinciones entre dos grupos

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tier [ˈtɪə^r] n

[seats] → gradin m
We were sitting in the top tier → Nous étions assis dans le gradin du haut.
tier of seats → gradin m

[cake] → étage m

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tier

n (of cake) → Etage f, → Stufe f; (of amphitheatre) → Reihe f; (Theat, of stadium) → Rang m; (fig, in hierarchy etc) → Stufe f, → Rang m; a cake with three tiers → ein dreistöckiger Kuchen; a three-tier hierarchy → eine dreigestufte Hierarchie; to arrange something in tiers → etw stufenförmig aufbauen

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tier [tɪəʳ] n (in theatre) → fila; (in stadium) → gradinata; (layer) → strato; (of cake) → piano
to arrange in tiers → disporre in file (or in strati)

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tier

n tier [tiə]

a row of seats They sat in the front/first tier. ry صَف مَقاعِد مُدَرَّج ред řada række die Reihe σειρά καθισμάτων fila pingirida ردیف penkkirivi rangée שורָה एक के ऊपर एक red sjedala sor deretan kursi sætaröð fila 列 열 balkonas, a÷kštas rinda tingkat rij rekke, rad rząd fila rând ряд rad vrsta red sedišta rad ที่นั่งที่ทำลดหลั่นลงมา sıra, kat (一)排(座位) ряд, ярус قطار hàng ghế （一）排（座位）