tierとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: tī'ə, (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtaɪ.ə/
• (米国発音) enPR: tī'ər, (General American) IPA: /ˈtaɪ.ɚ/
• ハイフネーション: tier
• 異形同音異義語: tire, tyre
• 韻: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)

名詞

tier (plural tiers)

1. One who ties (knots, etc.).
2. Something that ties.
3. (archaic) A child's apron.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to 中期英語 tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), 古期英語 tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: tî, (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɪə/
• (米国発音) enPR: tîr, (General American) IPA: /ˈtɪɚ/
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
• ハイフネーション: tier

名詞

tier (plural tiers)

1. A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
2. A rank or grade; a stratum.

   Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry:

     Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier.

   • 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian‎:

     At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.

3. (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. [from 19th c.]
   • 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:

     This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.

   • 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:

     On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.

4. A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.

派生語

動詞

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in layers.
2. (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
3. (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

参照

• Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tire, trie