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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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tier

Noun

one of a set of rows placed one above and behind the other, such as theatre seats [Old French tire]

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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.

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

Translations

tier [tɪəʳ] n → grada; [of cake] → piso

tier [tɪəʳ] n → gradin m [of cake]; étage m

tier [tɪəʳ] n [of stadium etc] → Rang m [of cake] → Lage f

tier [tɪəʳ] n → fila; [of cake] → piano, strato

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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 (관람석의) 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）