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tier

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tier has 5 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

tiern. 
     One who, or that which, ties.  [1913 Webster]
tiern. [See Tire a headdress.].
     A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.  [1913 Webster]
tiern. [Perhaps fr. OF. tire, F. tire; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. ziarī ornament, G. zier, AS. tīr glory, tiér row, rank. But cf. also F. tirer to draw, pull; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Attire, v. t., Tire a headdress, but also Tirade.].
     A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.  [1913 Webster]
Tiers of a cable, the ranges of fakes, or windings, of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tier, n.
1 a row or rank or unit of a structure, as one of several placed one above another (tiers of seats).
2 Naut. a a circle of coiled cable. b a place for a coiled cable.

Derivative
tiered adj. (also in comb.).
Etymology
earlier tire f. F f. tirer draw, elongate f. Rmc

THESAURUS

tier

Indian file, array, articulation, band, bank, bed, bedding, belt, buzz, category, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, couche, course, cycle, deck, descent, drone, echelon, endless belt, endless round, file, filiation, floor, gallery, gamut, gradation, grade, group, grouping, hum, layer, league, ledge, level, line, lineage, measures, monotone, nexus, order, overlayer, overstory, pendulum, periodicity, pigeonhole, plenum, powder train, progression, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, seam, sequence, series, shelf, single file, spectrum, stage, step, story, stratum, string, substratum, succession, superstratum, swath, thickness, thread, topsoil, train, underlayer, understory, understratum, windrow, zone

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Continuity

N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.

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