nounA row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another. · A rank or grade; a stratum. · A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. · A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
verbTo arrange in layers. · To cascade in an overlapping sequence. · To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFrom 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 Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Borrowed-form mentiontierfrm
- Derivation mentiontirefro · rank, sequence, order, kind
- Cognate mentiontirenm · honour, glory, power, rule
- Cognate mentiontīrang · glory, honour, fame
- Cognate mentiontírrnon · glory, honour, renown
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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