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Priority vs Tier - What's the difference?

priority | tier |

As nouns the difference between priority and tier

is that priority is an item's relative importance while tier is one who ties (knots, etc).

As a verb tier is

to arrange in layers.

priority

English

(wikipedia priority)

Noun

(priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority

    tier

    English

    Etymology 1

    (tie)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who ties (knots, etc).
  • Something that ties.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange in layers.
  • To cascade in an overlapping sequence.

    • Anagrams

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