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tier
/ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
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What does tier mean?
noun
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
More meanings (7)
noun
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (archaic) A child's apron.
verb
- To arrange in layers.
- To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
- To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
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IPA pronunciation
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Then they made their way through the front rows of stalls and looked at Box Five on the grand tier.
Just beneath the lowest tier of seats was a series of barred cages on a level with the surface of the arena.
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When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier.
The double tier of wreckage now swept forward, and hurled itself with a sullen plunge against the cutwaters of my stone piers.
How they were able to build them thus, tier upon tier, and prevent their falling when they were touched is beyond my comprehension.