What is the meaning of top tier

row, rank, or layer, one atop the other: Their seats are on the third tier.

Not to be confused with:

tear – (tear as in teardrop) a drop of the saline solution that is secreted by the lacrimal glands: I won’t shed a tear if you go.

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n.

1. One of a series of rows placed one above another: a stadium with four tiers of seats.

tr. & intr.v. tiered, tier·ing, tiers

To arrange (something) into or rise in tiers: tier a wedding cake; balconies that tier upward.

[Middle English tire, row, rank, from Old French, from tirer, to draw out; see tirade.]

n.

One that ties: a tier of knots.

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n

1. one of a set of rows placed one above and behind the other, such as theatre seats

2.

b. (in combination): a three-tier cake.

vb

to be or arrange in tiers

[C16: from Old French tire rank, of Germanic origin; compare Old English tīr embellishment]

n

a person or thing that ties

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n.

1. one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater.

2. one of a number of galleries, as in a theater.

3. a layer; level; stratum: a wedding cake with six tiers.

[1560–70; earlier also tire, tyre, teare < Middle French, Old French tire, tiere order, row, rank < Germanic; compare Old English, Old Saxon tīr, Old High German zēri glory, adornment]

ti•er2

n.

a person or thing that ties.

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Examples: tier of galleries; of guns; of organ pipes; of shelves; of shipping (moored), 1858; of snakes, 1646; of theatre boxes; the lower tier of society, 1882.

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Noun	1.	tier - a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" biosafety level - the level of safety from exposure to infectious agents; depends on work practices and safety equipment and facilities rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority" A level - the advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level) college level - the level of education that college students are assumed to have attained
	2.	tier - any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
	3.	tier - a worker who ties something worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	4.	tier - something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers"
	5.	tier - one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake" layer, bed - single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"

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noun row, bank, layer, line, order, level, series, file, rank, storey, stratum, echelon an auditorium with tiers of seats around and above it

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a row of seats. They sat in the front/first tier. ry صَف مَقاعِد مُدَرَّج ред fila řada die Reihe række σειρά καθισμάτων fila pingirida ردیف penkkirivi rangéeשורה एक के ऊपर एक red sjedala sor deretan kursi sætaröð fila 列 열 balkonas, a÷kštas rinda tingkat rijrekke, radrządfila rând ряд rad vrsta red sedišta rad ที่นั่งที่ทำลดหลั่นลงมา sıra, kat (一)排(座位) ряд, ярус قطار hàng ghế （一）排（座位）

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