# tier
## English
### Etymology 1

From tie +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: tī'ə(r), IPA: /ˈtaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: tī'ər, IPA: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
* Hyphenation: tier
* Homophones: tire, tyre
* Rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)

#### Noun

tier (plural tiers)
* One who ties (knots, etc).
* Something that ties.
* (archaic) A child's apron.

##### Derived terms

* leaf tier

### Etymology 2

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA: /ˈtɪə/
* (US) enPR: tîr, IPA: /ˈtɪɚ/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
* Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
* Hyphenation: tier

#### Noun

tier (plural tiers)
* A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
* A rank or grade; a stratum.
    Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.
** 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry:Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier.
** 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian‎:At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.
* (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. [from 19th c.]
** 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.
** 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.
* A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.

##### Derived terms

* cable-tier
* free-tier
* god tier
* midtier
* multitier
* n-tier
* second-tier
* subtier
* third-tier
* tier list
* top tier
* two-tier
* two-tiered
* Web-tier

##### Translations
#### Verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)
* (transitive) To arrange in layers.
* (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
* (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

##### References

* Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tire, trie

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tier (plural tiere or tiers)
* tiger
* leopard
    Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +‎ -er.

#### Alternative forms

* 10'er

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiːˀər/, [ˈtˢiˀɐ]

#### Noun

tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)
* ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
* ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
* number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
* (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)

##### See also

Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text) :
| es | toer | treer | firer | femmer | sekser | syver |
| otter | nier | tier | knægt, bonde | dame, dronning | konge | joker |

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiːər/, [ˈtˢiːɐ]
* Homophone: tiger

#### Verb

tier
* present tense of tie

### References

* “tier” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ir

### Verb

tier
* inflection of tieren:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* riet

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Middle High German tier, from Old High German tior, from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm.

### Noun

tier m (plural tieres)
* (gherdëina, badiot) animal
* A person who has a quality thought of as animalistic, such as ferocity, strength, hairiness, etc.
    Ël lëura sciche n tier.He works like an animal.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)
* a ten kroner coin
* something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

### Verb

tier
* present of tie

### References

* “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Romansch
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Tier.

### Noun

tier m (plural tiers)
* (Sursilvan) animal

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
* (Sursilvan) bestia
* (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha