Pier

Definition: Pier

Pier

Noun

1. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats.

2. (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows).

3. A support for two adjacent bridge spans.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pier" was first used: sometime in the early 12th century. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

Mining

Shipping

Transportation

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Synonyms: Pier

Refuge

Roadstead, anchorage; breakwater, mole, port, haven; harbor, harbor of refuge; seaport; pier, jetty, embankment, quay.

Crosswords: Pier

Dutch (earthworm), German (dock, jetty, pier), Portuguese (pier).

Take a long walk off a short pier! (Peggy Sue Got Married; writing credit: Jerry Leichtling; Arlene Sarner)

To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier. (Legend Of A Mind; performing artist: Moody Blues)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969)

Havana Pier 5 (1959)

The Girl on the Pier (1953)

Pier 23 (1951)

The Funeral Cortege Arriving at Trinity Pier (1901)

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References

• Pier Import Europe: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti/My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini/Florida: Three Novels (reference)

• Pier Angeli: A Fragile Life (reference)

• The Boston Fish Pier Seafood Recipe Cook Book (reference)

• The Dive from Clausen's Pier (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Seay Systems Audio Pier (206) (reference)

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Setting up microwave navigation instrument on pier at Fredericksted Party off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tide gauge house on pier along southeast Atlantic coast Tides party of Gerald B. Mills. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Small shrimp boat tied up at a private pier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A seagull wading in the surf near the Edwin S. Taylor Fishing Pier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The fishing pier at Kitty Hawk. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Aerial view of Woods Hole - ALBATROSS IV fisheries research vessel at pier. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A shark fishing boat at Crosby's Fish & Shrimp Company pier. Credit: Fisheries.

The Ventura County Commercial Fishing Pier. Credit: Fisheries.

An aerial view of the Commercial Fish Pier in New Bedford Harbor, inner harbor, New Bedford side. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A mullet, common in southeastern U. S. estuaries, on the pier. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

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A gentleman, with a lady, and child, and a large dog, were down at the end of a pier on which I was walking

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Business

New terminal- Pier A - was open in June 1997, thus increasing the airport capacity for 5 million passengers. (references)

Following an expansion of the container and cruise ship facilities to accommodate increased traffic, the port is now planning the construction of a new pier to handle general cargo or bulk. Work should take place next year, for a total cost of $2.5 million. (references)

Port operation of MTP began after the completion of the first phase construction in early 1992. A chemical fertilizer pier was added sometime after the first phase and eventually completed in 1997. Presently, MTP consist of one general cargo terminal, two liquid cargo terminals, and a small vessel terminal for 2,000-3,000 DWT vessel. (references)

Economic History

St. Kitts and Nevis

Growth was only 1% in 1998 and 2.8% in 1999, compared to 7.3% in 1997. Tourism in particular suffered in 1998 and 1999 as a result of the hurricanes which forced the closure of one of the major hotels and heavily damaged the cruiseship pier. (references)

Sri Lanka

There are also plans to develop the north pier of the Colombo port with Japanese financing. (references)

Senegal

It has a fishing pier with sites reserved exclusively for cold storage and the repair and maintenance of fishing fleets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "pier": Abutment pier ♦ baffle pier ♦ Banded pier ♦ Chain pier ♦ Compound pier ♦ ex pier ♦ Floating pier ♦ Luna Pier ♦ Narragansett Pier ♦ passenger pier ♦ pier arch ♦ pier glass ♦ pier Luigi Nervi ♦ pier mirror ♦ pier table ♦ solid pier foundations ♦ supporting pier ♦ Union Pier ♦ wall pier. Additional references.

Beginning with "pier": pier-and-door, pier-end, pier-glass, pier-head, pier-heads.

Ending with "pier": end-of-the-pier, landing-pier, pseudo-pier.

Afrikaans

aanlegplek (landing-stage), aanlêplek (landing-stage), aanlêplaas (landing-stage). (various references)

Albanian

valëthyes (breakwater, Cutwater), valëpritës (breakwater), urë bregëzimi, skelë (bunder, gang board, Harbor, harborage, harbour, harbourage, landing, mole, port, scaffold, scaffolding, stage, staging, water front, wharf), mur i plotë, mol (dam, mole, quay, quayage, quayside), këmbë ure (pylon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عمود (armature, column, perch, pillar, pit, pole, post, prop, stake, standard, stock), ‏جسر (bridge, dare, embankment, viaduct), ‏جدار بين بابين, ‏ركيزة (crutch, mounting, outrigger, pillar, prop, stanchion, stilt, string, strut), ‏رصيف ميناء, ‏دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стълб (column, pile, pillar, pole, post, riser, shaft, staff, stanchion, standard, verge), стойка (attitude, bipod, carriage, crutch, deportment, holder, leg, pillar, port, post, posture, rack, rest, riser, set, stand, tree), контрафорс (abutment, buttress), колона (column, pillar, shaft, shank, tige, upright, verge), кей (cob, embankment, front, jetty, landing stage, levee, moorage, quay, slip, wharf), вълнолом (breakwater, groyne, jetty, mole, quay), мостова опора, пристан (flying bridge, levee, mole, moorage, wharf), пилон (mast, pile, pylon, tower). (various references)

Chinese 

碼頭 (dock, wharf), 码头 (Quay, Wharf, Wharfs). (various references)

Czech

pilíř (column, pillar, post), přístavní hráz (mole, quay), vlnolam (breakwater, groyne), molo (jetty, mole, wharf). (various references)

Danish

pille (pill), pier (bridge, jetty), soejle (column, pedestal, pillar, stanchion, supporting column), mole (breakwater, dyke, embankment, groin, groyne, jetty, landing stage, mole, piled fendering, sea wall, spur, staging, timber staging, wharf), landingsplads (berth, jetty, landing stage), landgangsbro (gangboard, gangway, jetty, landing stage, shore gangway, staging, wharf), havnemole (jetty), finger (finger), baerende soejle (column, pedestal, pillar, stanchion, supporting column). (various references)

Dutch

steiger (landing-stage), landingsplaats (landing-stage), aanlegsteiger (landing-stage), aanlegplaats (landing-stage, platform, quay, wharf). (various references)

Esperanto

varfo (landing-stage), navighaltejo (landing-stage), albordiĝejo (landing-stage). (various references)

Faeroese

brimgarður (landing-stage). (various references)

Farsi 

پایه پل (Cutwater), موج شکن (Breakwater, Bulwark, Pile), لنگرگاه (Anchorage, Berth, Dock, Harbor, Haven, Levee, Marina, Port), ستون (Column, Jamb, Pile, Pillar, Shaft, Staple), جرز (Pillar), اسکله (Quay, Waterfront, Wharf). (various references)

Finnish

pylväs (column, pillar, post), purkulaituri (jetty, landing stage), pilari (column, pillar), paalu (pile, pole), tukipylväs (mainstay, supporting pillar), tukipilari (column, follower, pedestal, pillar, stanchion, stationary support, steady rest, supporting column), satamalaituri (quay), maihinnousulaituri (jetty, landing stage), laituri (burn one's boats, jetty, platform, quay, wharf, wharf landing-stage), jalusta (base, pedestal, stand). (various references)

French

pilier (pillar), pile (pile), jetée (passenger pier), débarcadère, colonne (pillar), appontement (finger pier). (various references)

Frisian

lisplak (landing-stage). (various references)

German

Pier (dock, jetty), Pfeiler (buttress, pillar, pole, post, pylon, stake, stanchion), Mole (jetty, mole). (various references)

Greek 

αποβάθρα (dock, jetty, landing stage, levee, platform, quay, wharf). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזח (breakwater, jetty, mole, quay, slip, wharf). (various references)

Hungarian

móló (breakwater, causeway, jetty, landing stage, mole). (various references)

Icelandic

landgöngubryggja (landing-stage). (various references)

Indonesian

pendaratan (debarkation, descent, disembarkation, land fall, landing), dermaga (jetty, quay, wharf). (various references)

Italian

molo (breakwater, jetty, mole, quay, wharf), pila (battery, heap, pile, stack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

桟橋 (bridge, jetty, wharf). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さんきょう (bridge, gap, gorge, jetty, ravine, Shinto and Buddhism and Confucianism, wharf), さんばし (bridge, jetty, wharf), ふとう (disparity, ice-free, impropriety, indomitableness, inequality, inflexible, injustice, invalid, nonparticipation, tenacity, unbending, undeservedness, unfair, unreasonableness), もんちゅう (gatepost). (various references)

Korean 

교각. (various references)

Manx

peer, keay (coulter-holder), calloo marrey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ierpay.(various references)

Portuguese

pilar de ponte, pilar (buttress, pestle, post, spile, stanchion, stoop), pier, paredão (breakwater, seawall, wall), quebra-mar (breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, starling), molhe (jetty, mole, quay, quayside, wharf), espigão (agnail, capstone, crest, gable, gardenbed, pintle, plug, rough, spike, spur), embarcadouro, caisdeatracação, cais (bund, platform, quay, quayside, wharf, wharfage), ancoradouro (berth, creek, harbor, harbour, haven, lay-by, moorage, mooring). (various references)

Romanian

pilon de pod, pilã de pod, zãgaz (bank, barrier, breakwater, dam, dike, embankment, flood gate, groin, levee, Weir), stãvilar (dam, flood gate, lock, penstock, sluice, Weir), stâlp (adherent, backbone, column, pilaster, pillar, pilot, post, prop, pylon, shaft, spile, staff, stake, stanchion, strut, stud, support, supporter, upholder), mol (mole), dig (breakwater, dam, dike, embankment, jetty, levee, mole), chei (embankment, fountain, gap, gorge, jetty, levee, mole, opening, quay, wharf). (various references)

Russian 

волнорез (breakwater, groyne, sea wall), мол (breakwater, jetty, mole, quay), бык (bull, neat, ox, oxen), пристань;бык, пристань (bunder, dock, landing stage, landing-stage, quayside, wharf, wharves), причал (berth, moorage, wharf), пирс (dock). (various references)

Scottish

laimrig (a landing-place, a natural pier). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pristanište (dock, slip, terminal, wharf), stub (column, pile, pillar, pole, post, pylon). (various references)

Spanish

desembarcadero (landing-stage), amarradero (berth, landing-stage, moorage, mooring, moorings), pilar (anchor, mainstay, pillar, pillars, stilt, support), pila (battery, bowl, cell, heap, pile, primary cell, trough), muelle (bouncy, dock, jetty, luxurious, mole, quay, quayside, soft, spring, springy, wharf), malecón (jetty, mole), embarcadero (ferry, ferryboat, goods station, jetty, platform). (various references)

Swedish

pir (jetty, mole), brygga (brew, brew (to drink), bridge, gantry, jetty, make, percolate, wharf). (various references)

Turkish

pencereler arasındaki duvar, payanda (buttress, pillar, pit prop, plank, prop, shore, spur, standard, stock, strut, support), rıhtım (dock, jetty, quay, quayside, wharf), mendirek (jetty, mole), kapılar arasındaki duvar, iskele (dockage, gangboard, gangway, landing, landing place, landing stage, larboard, port, quay, scaffold, scaffolding, seaport, stage, staging, stopping place, wharf), dalgakıran (breakwater, jetty, mole). (various references)

Turkmen 

pristan (r) (quay). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилеріз (breakwater, groyne), пірс (dock, jetty), дамба (bank, barrage, bund, causeway, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, jetty, mole, pen, sea-bank). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trụ giữa hai cửa s, cột trụ. (various references)

aggerem, aggeres, aggeribus, aggeris, aggerum, crepidine, crepidinem, crepidinis, crepido, petra, pila, pilae, pilam, pilis. (various references)

jambe. (various references)

pire. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pier": pierce, pierced, piercer, piercers, pierces, piercing, piercingly, piercings, pierogi, pierogies, pierrot, pierrots, piers. (additional references)

Words ending with "pier": bumpier, campier, chippier, chirpier, choppier, clumpier, copier, crappier, creepier, crepier, crimpier, crispier, croupier, cuppier, dippier, dopier, drippier, droopier, dumpier, flappier, floppier, frumpier, gappier, gimpier, glumpier, goopier, grapier, gripier, grippier, grumpier, gulpier, happier, hempier, hippier, hoppier, humpier, jumpier, lippier, loopier, loppier, lumpier, mopier, nappier, nippier, occupier, pappier, peppier, photocopier, pipier, preppier, pulpier. (additional references)

Words containing "pier": copiers, croupiers, occupiers, photocopiers, rapiered, rapiers, spiered, spiering, spiers, transpierce, transpierced, transpierces, transpiercing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apier, Ier, Ipero, Ipser, opier, opire, paeir, pebr, peder, peeer, peier, peig, peir, peirl, peiz, perr, peyer, pher, phie, phior, Piara, Piber, pibr, Pidra, piec, Piedra, pief, pieg, pierc, pierd, piere, Pieri, Pieria, pierl, piero, Pietri, piev, piew, piex, pinear, piner, pinr, piof, piqr, pir, pire, pirer, piret, piri, pirr, pitr, Pivra, piyer, pler, plier, poer, poire, prer, pter, puber, Puer, pu-erh, puie, pwer, pyar, Pyer, Pymer, pyr, pyrg, pyrk, pyrt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peri, ripe.

-1 letter: ire, per, pie, rei, rep, rip.

-2 letters: er, pe, pi, re.

+1 letter: cripe, gripe, peril, peris, piers, piker, piper, plier, price, pride, pried, prier, pries, prime, prise, prize, redip, repin, riped, ripen, riper, ripes, speir, spier, spire, tripe, viper, wiper.

+2 letters: aspire, ceriph, cipher, copier, cripes, diaper, dipper, dopier, empire, ephori, epimer, esprit, euripi, expire, expiry, gipper, griped, griper, gripes, gripey, grippe, hipper, hirple, impure, jimper, kipper, limper, lipper, lisper, mopier, nipper, orpine, paired, palier, panier, pardie, paries, peerie, perdie, pereia, perils, period, perish, permit, picker, piecer, pierce, pikers, pilfer, pincer, pinder, pinery, pinger, pinier, pinker, pinner, pipers, pipier, pirate, pisser, pitier, pliers, poiser, pokier, praise, precis, prefix, prelim, premie, premix, priced, pricer, prices, pricey, prided, prides, priers, priest, primed, primer, primes, prince, prised, prises, privet, prized, prizer, prizes, protei, pterin, punier, purine, pyrite, rapier, rapine, recipe, redips, redipt, repaid, repair, repine, repins, reship, rimple, ripely, ripens, ripest, ripped, ripper, ripple, ropier, simper, sipper, sniper, speirs, spicer, spider, spiers, spiker, spirea, spired, spirem, spires, sprier, sprite, stripe, tipper, trepid, tripes, triple, typier, umpire, unripe, uprise, vipers, wipers, zipper.