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Grammar : Noun
Spell : teer
Phonetic Transcription : tɪər



Definition of tier

Origin :
  • "row, rank, range," 1560s, from Middle French tire, from Old French tire "rank, sequence, order" (early 13c.), probably from tirer "to draw, draw out" (see tirade). Some suggests the French noun is from a Germanic source akin to Old High German ziari, German Zier "adornment," Old English tir "glory, honor."
  • noun level
Example sentences :
  • The porters arranged them symmetrically, tier by tier, on the vehicles.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • Then they ran along the second tier of roofs beneath the open heavens.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of Tier.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
  • When we got into dock we had lost our turn for loading, and they hauled us off to a tier where we remained for a month.
  • Extract from : « Youth » by Joseph Conrad
  • "It's steep to-night," he mutters, as tier on tier of cloud drops under.
  • Extract from : « With The Night Mail » by Rudyard Kipling
  • This operation was repeated until a tier of slabs had been molded.
  • Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
  • Tier after tier of these walls extended up the sides of the steep hills.
  • Extract from : « The Critic in the Orient » by George Hamlin Fitch
  • He turned his hand, with the three cards in a tier, so that all might see.
  • Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • He is at present in the back of that empty box on the third tier.
  • Extract from : « Condemned as a Nihilist » by George Alfred Henty
  • Ranged about the walls, piled tier on tier, were black 94 cubes of sand and gravel.
  • Extract from : « Panther Eye » by Roy J. Snell

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