Word Meanings - TIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, ties.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIER)

• Gradation
• Stage
• tier
• degree
• rank
• standing
• graduation
• ordination
• arrangement
• precedency
• Rank
• Row
• line
• order
• grade
• dignity

Related words: (words related to TIER)

• ORDINATION
  The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• STANDAGE
  A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
• STANDER-BY
  One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• STANDERGRASS
  A plant ; -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
• STAND
  OS. standan, stan, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. stå, Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. stha. *163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder,
• GRADATIONAL
  By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• STANDISH
  A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.
• STAGELY
  Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• DEGREE
  A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• STANDARD-WING
  A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• REGRADE
  To retire; to go back. W. Hales.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• DIGITIGRADE
  Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.