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Definition of tier in English: tiernoun tɪəˈtɪr 1Each in a series of rows or levels of a structure placed one above the other. in combination the room was full of three-tier metal bunks Example sentencesExamples - But the residents say development will come within 70 ft of the edge of the boulder clay cliff and will be only 30 to 50 ft above the first tier of houses.
- The stadium, with its huge tiers of stone seating, is as impressive as it is old.
- The ground has changed a bit since then, with great cylindrical towers supporting a third tier, and a plexiglass roof that bottles up the venue's unique atmosphere.
- Three sides of the inner chamber were lined with tiers of seats, the fourth being a flat extension of the floor, where sat the Mayor and his clerks.
- Beyond, long hallways were being reframed into tiers of open-air balconies, through which 55 small rooms would face a central, palm-shaded atrium.
- Constructed in A.D. 161, this once-massive theater today holds only 5,000 spectators in the lower tier of seats.
- Against the far wall was built a smaller structure that looked like two tiers of temporary offices.
- I took a seat in the upper tier of the Cusack Stand to watch the minor final.
- He rebuilt the retaining walls as multiple tiers, with a bonus upper-level patio above a bank of stone steps.
- The banked tiers of seats in front were in a deep gloom that contrasted sharply with the lurid light flooding the tables.
- When the new huts are placed on the prime spot, there will also be special lighting, wheelchair access for three tiers of huts, a water supply and designated parking for the site users.
- The Rows are double-decker layers of shops, one tier on the street level, the others stacked on top and connected by a footway.
- Her leather book bag lay under her head and a tray sat on the tier above her.
- A woman at the bar on the tier above us held her drink precariously over mom's head.
- He made the infants' room look like a lecture theatre, with children as young as three sitting on tiers in a gallery.
- Inside was a rounded room, with tiers of seats rising up all around, focused on a platform in the middle of the room where three men sat, watching him as he walked in.
- The banded masonry structure forms a robust base for the hovering lightweight steel roof plane held tautly above the tiers of seating below.
- Supporters flung the wooden seats from the upper tier of a stand at Sheffield United supporters celebrating their team's win on the pitch below.
- As in the Chicago Auditorium, two tiers of box seats with arched fronts lined the sides of the auditorium above the lower orchestra.
- For an hour-and-a-half, their contest was so intense that from the court you could hear cutlery being removed from the hospitality booths three tiers above.
Synonyms row, rank, bank, line layer, level, plane, floor, storey, deck - 1.1 Each of a number of successively overlapping ruffles or flounces on a garment.
a full skirt gathered into three tiers Example sentencesExamples - Pin a piece of costume jewelry between the two tiers.
- Heiress, a wedding dress from 1957 with chevron pleated handkerchief linen descending in tiers banded with handmade Irish crochet, demonstrates the concept at its most magical.
- Scarlet Johansson in a very green dress that has tiers of green ruffles.
- However, she seemed to have forgotten the lower tier of her shirt.
- Meg took it and drank slowly, careful not to spill any on her dress, while Mrs. Carroll fretted around the pair, nervously fidgeting with the bottom tier of the gown.
- Nicole Kidman chose a Chanel pink-chiffon, spaghetti-strap gown with tiers of ruffles running down the bodice, and 200 carats of raw Bulgari diamonds wrapped around her neck.
- 1.2 A level or grade within the hierarchy of an organization or system.
companies have taken out a tier of management to save money Example sentencesExamples - Critics of the plan believe it is rooted as much in political expediency as in a genuine desire to revamp the topmost tier of the legal system.
- When a company makes progress within these lower tiers, it eventually gets promoted to the index above.
- It most likely represents the upper tier of a two-tiered hierarchy, as a large number of smaller sites have been recorded in the vicinity.
- However when a tier of our democratic system does not work well it is imperative to improve it not abolish it.
- The automobile industry is characterized by a hierarchical social division of labor, organized in tiers around powerful car producers.
- We should like to see a better representation from people of various faiths at all tiers within the Charity Commission.
- Australia is in danger of creating a two-tier system of universities.
- The final tier of the hierarchy is the Executive Oversight Committee.
- The defenders of our health care system have asserted themselves strongly, and the advocates of the two-tier system are for the moment, in retreat.
- It was also successful at the lower tier of government and, indeed, in 2002 held office in every state and territory.
- What are the societal consequences of creating a two-tier medical system?
- The government has determined to replace appeals to the Privy Council with a new two tier Supreme Court above the current Court of Appeal.
- The basic tier is operation within the workplace.
- All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade.
- Is this third level necessary when two tiers of government are already regulating pesticides?
- Having arrived at the final 40, they assigned each to one of four tiers, and debated the ranking within each tier.
- Since the mid-1990s, lower tiers of government have been expected to shoulder the lion's share of these education costs using their own locally-raised taxes.
- We wanted to see how we could pull out costs at the buyer tier of the three-tier system.
- These schools would compose the bottom tier of an educational hierarchy based on privilege.
- Apart from the social tier, I wonder if there are any other differences?
Synonyms grade, gradation, step, echelon, point on the scale, rung on the ladder archaic degree - 1.3usually tiers (in Tasmania and South Australia) a forested mountain range, especially one of a series.
open plains bordered by far extending precipitous mountain tiers Example sentencesExamples - She says her Blue Tiers mountain biking tourism concept will create more than 50 long-term jobs in the North-East.
- What hurts the men of the Great Western Tiers most is that no one has asked them what should happen on the mountain range.
- I can see the Tiers rearing up 1000 metres, forested from top to bottom.
- Stretching back from the Tiers is a relatively flat alpine area, a land of thousands of lakes and endemic pines.
- So little of the remaining land is useful, consisting as it does of impenetrable scrub or mountain tiers.
- To the east, bounded also by the Tiers, the plateau is relatively flat, with large, shallow lakes set amidst open eucalypt forest.
- It's disastrous that we're clearing over very large attitudinal ranges, in places like the Western Tiers.
- Tasmania's logging furore centres on the Styx Valley, the Tarkine, the Great Western Tiers, the Northeast Highlands, the Eastern Tiers, the Tasman Peninsula and the Leven Valley.
Origin Late 15th century: from French tire 'sequence, order', from tirer 'elongate, draw'. Rhymes adhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah Definition of tier in US English: tiernounˈtirˈtɪr 1A row or level of a structure, typically one of a series of rows placed one above the other and successively receding or diminishing in size. in combination the room was full of three-tier metal bunks Example sentencesExamples - When the new huts are placed on the prime spot, there will also be special lighting, wheelchair access for three tiers of huts, a water supply and designated parking for the site users.
- Three sides of the inner chamber were lined with tiers of seats, the fourth being a flat extension of the floor, where sat the Mayor and his clerks.
- But the residents say development will come within 70 ft of the edge of the boulder clay cliff and will be only 30 to 50 ft above the first tier of houses.
- Supporters flung the wooden seats from the upper tier of a stand at Sheffield United supporters celebrating their team's win on the pitch below.
- He made the infants' room look like a lecture theatre, with children as young as three sitting on tiers in a gallery.
- He rebuilt the retaining walls as multiple tiers, with a bonus upper-level patio above a bank of stone steps.
- Beyond, long hallways were being reframed into tiers of open-air balconies, through which 55 small rooms would face a central, palm-shaded atrium.
- Against the far wall was built a smaller structure that looked like two tiers of temporary offices.
- The ground has changed a bit since then, with great cylindrical towers supporting a third tier, and a plexiglass roof that bottles up the venue's unique atmosphere.
- The Rows are double-decker layers of shops, one tier on the street level, the others stacked on top and connected by a footway.
- The stadium, with its huge tiers of stone seating, is as impressive as it is old.
- The banded masonry structure forms a robust base for the hovering lightweight steel roof plane held tautly above the tiers of seating below.
- As in the Chicago Auditorium, two tiers of box seats with arched fronts lined the sides of the auditorium above the lower orchestra.
- The banked tiers of seats in front were in a deep gloom that contrasted sharply with the lurid light flooding the tables.
- Her leather book bag lay under her head and a tray sat on the tier above her.
- Inside was a rounded room, with tiers of seats rising up all around, focused on a platform in the middle of the room where three men sat, watching him as he walked in.
- For an hour-and-a-half, their contest was so intense that from the court you could hear cutlery being removed from the hospitality booths three tiers above.
- Constructed in A.D. 161, this once-massive theater today holds only 5,000 spectators in the lower tier of seats.
- A woman at the bar on the tier above us held her drink precariously over mom's head.
- I took a seat in the upper tier of the Cusack Stand to watch the minor final.
- 1.1 One of a number of successively overlapping ruffles or flounces on a garment.
Example sentencesExamples - Scarlet Johansson in a very green dress that has tiers of green ruffles.
- Meg took it and drank slowly, careful not to spill any on her dress, while Mrs. Carroll fretted around the pair, nervously fidgeting with the bottom tier of the gown.
- Heiress, a wedding dress from 1957 with chevron pleated handkerchief linen descending in tiers banded with handmade Irish crochet, demonstrates the concept at its most magical.
- However, she seemed to have forgotten the lower tier of her shirt.
- Pin a piece of costume jewelry between the two tiers.
- Nicole Kidman chose a Chanel pink-chiffon, spaghetti-strap gown with tiers of ruffles running down the bodice, and 200 carats of raw Bulgari diamonds wrapped around her neck.
- 1.2 A level or grade within the hierarchy of an organization or system.
companies have taken out a tier of management to save money Example sentencesExamples - The government has determined to replace appeals to the Privy Council with a new two tier Supreme Court above the current Court of Appeal.
- It was also successful at the lower tier of government and, indeed, in 2002 held office in every state and territory.
- When a company makes progress within these lower tiers, it eventually gets promoted to the index above.
- Critics of the plan believe it is rooted as much in political expediency as in a genuine desire to revamp the topmost tier of the legal system.
- The final tier of the hierarchy is the Executive Oversight Committee.
- The automobile industry is characterized by a hierarchical social division of labor, organized in tiers around powerful car producers.
- We wanted to see how we could pull out costs at the buyer tier of the three-tier system.
- The defenders of our health care system have asserted themselves strongly, and the advocates of the two-tier system are for the moment, in retreat.
- Is this third level necessary when two tiers of government are already regulating pesticides?
- However when a tier of our democratic system does not work well it is imperative to improve it not abolish it.
- Having arrived at the final 40, they assigned each to one of four tiers, and debated the ranking within each tier.
- Australia is in danger of creating a two-tier system of universities.
- It most likely represents the upper tier of a two-tiered hierarchy, as a large number of smaller sites have been recorded in the vicinity.
- Since the mid-1990s, lower tiers of government have been expected to shoulder the lion's share of these education costs using their own locally-raised taxes.
- The basic tier is operation within the workplace.
- All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade.
- These schools would compose the bottom tier of an educational hierarchy based on privilege.
- We should like to see a better representation from people of various faiths at all tiers within the Charity Commission.
- Apart from the social tier, I wonder if there are any other differences?
- What are the societal consequences of creating a two-tier medical system?
Synonyms grade, gradation, step, echelon, point on the scale, rung on the ladder
Origin Late 15th century: from French tire ‘sequence, order’, from tirer ‘elongate, draw’. |