Need another word that means the same as “tier”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “tier” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Tier” are: tier up, grade, level, row, rank, bank, line, gradation, step, echelon, point on the scale, rung on the ladder
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tier” as a noun can have the following definitions:
bank | A building in which the business of banking transacted. They pulled the canoe up on the bank. |
echelon | A body of troops arranged in a line. The rear echelon. |
gradation | Relative position in a graded series. Amorphous shapes in subtle gradations of green and blue. |
grade | A relative position or degree of value in a graded group. Sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades. |
level | An instrument for giving a horizontal line of sight. At six he could play chess at an advanced level. |
line | A contour or outline considered as a feature of design or composition. The stresses unique to their line of work. |
point on the scale | The object of an activity. |
rank | A position within the hierarchy of an organization or society. Only two cabinet members had held ministerial rank before. |
row | The act of rowing as a sport. A mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds. |
rung on the ladder | A crosspiece between the legs of a chair. |
step | The sound of a step of someone walking. He stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig. |
tier up | One of two or more layers one atop another. |
balance | A weight that balances another weight. She has to balance work and her domestic duties. |
breadth | Wide range or extent. The minister is not noted for his breadth of vision. |
class | Arrange or order by classes or categories. The class system. |
course | A sail on the lowest yards of a square-rigged ship. Once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place. |
echelon | Arrange in an echelon formation. The rear echelon. |
epidermis | The outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates. |
even | Make or become even. The road was not very even. |
extent | The size or scale of something. An enclosure ten acres in extent. |
grade | Determine the grade of or assign a grade to. Grade A milk. |
grading | Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score. What he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do. |
impermeable | Not allowing fluid to pass through. A coat impermeable to rain. |
juridical | Relating to judicial proceedings and the administration of the law. Clear words are a matter of practical rather than juridical significance. |
level | Become level or even. The front garden is on a level with this floor. |
middlebrow | A middlebrow person. Middlebrow fiction. |
midway | In or towards the middle of something. A midway path is chosen between the diverging aspirations of the two factions. |
notch | Cut or make a notch into. Her opinion of Nicole dropped a few notches. |
octane | A colourless flammable hydrocarbon of the alkane series, present in petroleum spirit. |
pentavalent | Having a valence of five. |
phase | A structure containing two verbs in a phase. He phased the intake with the output of the machine. |
qualification | The qualification stage of a sporting event. They need to beat Poland to ensure qualification for the World Cup finals. |
range | Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner. The army maintains a missile range in the desert. |
rank | Have a specified rank or place within a grading system. She is ranked number four in the world. |
scale | Measure by or as if by a scale. This bike scales only 25 pounds. |
spectrum | The entire range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. The left or the right of the political spectrum. |
status | Relative social or professional position; standing. The duchy had been elevated to the status of a principality. |
step | The distance covered by a step. He heard footsteps on the porch. |
straddle | Fire at (a target) with shots or bombs so that they fall short of and beyond it. The plants straddle the entire state. |
stratified | (of seeds) placed close together in layers in moist sand or peat to preserve them or to help them germinate. A stratified society in which political power and influence still lay in the hands of the landed class. |
stratify | Of seeds be germinated by stratifying. The residues have begun to stratify. |
stratum | A subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling. A stratum of flint. |
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