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Tier   /tɪr/   Listen
Tier

noun
1.
A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.  Synonyms: grade, level.
2.
Any one of two or more competitors who tie one another.
3.
A worker who ties something.  Synonym: tier up.
4.
Something that is used for tying.
5.
One of two or more layers one atop another.  "A three-tier wedding cake"



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"Tier" Quotes from Famous Books



... agency, we need not be so careful about the appearance of perfect peace; we may be a little more dignified and a little more classical. The windows may be symmetrically arranged; and, if there be a blue and undulating distance, the upper tier may even have cornices; narrower architraves are to be used; the garrets may be taken from the roof, and their inmates may be accommodated in the other side of the house; but we must take care, in doing this, not to become ...
— The Poetry of Architecture • John Ruskin
... that she intended to desert, but she was bent on a romp, and had made up her mind not to be captured by force. A chain of eight or nine feet dangled from her girdle, and she persistently avoided approaching the lower tier of shingles, to keep that chain from hanging down over the edge, but was equally careful not to venture too near the extremities of the roof-ridge, for there was a skylight at each gable. She kept around the middle of the roof; and we concluded ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... and laid him on board also, the first of these that now came up being the vice-admiral of the Biscay squadron, a very mighty and puissant ship, commanded by Brittandona. The San Philip carried three tier of ordnance on a side, and eleven pieces in each tier, besides eight pieces in her forecastle chase, and others from her stern-ports. After the Revenge was thus entangled by the huge San Philip, four others laid her ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... careful to sit down with Carmela on one side of their box on the second tier, leaving two chairs in front for the fidanzati, but the young man made several efforts to include her in the conversation and she understood that she had put herself in a false position. Orazio had misunderstood her because her manners were not the manners of Lucca, ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... issues category now has a "Trafficking in persons" entry. Human trafficking connotes modern-day slavery and this important new field will include information on the most egregious countries (Tier 2 Watch List and Tier 3) as listed in the US State ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States


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