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authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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tier
English
Etymology 1
tie +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: t?'?(r), IPA(key): /?ta?.?(?)/
- (US) enPR: t?'?r, IPA(key): /?ta?.?/
- Hyphenation: tier
- Homophones: tire, tyre
Noun
tier (plural tiers)
- One who ties (knots, etc).
- Something that ties.
- (archaic) A child's apron.
Etymology 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 Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English t?r (“glory, honour, fame”), German Zier (“adornment, ornament, decoration”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA(key): /?t??/
- (US) enPR: tîr, IPA(key): /?t??/
- Hyphenation: tier
- Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)
Noun
tier (plural tiers)
- A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)
- (transitive) To arrange in layers.
- (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
- (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
References
- Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tire, trie
Afrikaans
Etymology
From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.
Noun
tier (plural tiere or tiers)
- tiger
- leopard
- Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd
Danish
Etymology 1
From ti (“ten”) +? er
Alternative forms
- 10'er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti???r/, [?t?i??]
Noun
tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)
- ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
- ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
- number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
- (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)
Inflection
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti??r/, [?t?i??]
- Homophone: tiger
Verb
tier
- present tense of tie
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ir
Verb
tier
- first-person singular present indicative of tieren
- imperative of tieren
Anagrams
- riet
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)
- a ten kroner coin, worth about £1 in Britain.
- something or someone that has the number ten (ti)
Verb
tier
- present of tie
References
- “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romansch
Etymology
Borrowed from German Tier.
Noun
tier m (plural tiers)
- (Sursilvan) animal
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
- (Sursilvan) bestia
- (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha
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