tower
IPA: tˈaʊɝ
noun
- A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
- A water tower.
- A control tower.
- Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
- (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
- (informal) An interlocking tower.
- (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
- (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- (collective) A group of giraffes
- One who tows.
- (UK, with 'the') The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
- (countable) A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers
- (attributive, from its later association with the English mint at the Tower of London) Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.
verb
- (intransitive) To be very tall.
- (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
- (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
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Examples of "tower" in Sentences
- Jack, do you have a link for the rumor that a tower is leaning?
- Firstly, the Shangri La tower is the tallest tower in Vancouver, at 64 floors.
- Under the tower is a hall built between the years 1442 and 1446, during the Ming dynasty.
- The central processing unit, or main tower, is 10.4 inches long, 3.9 inches wide, and 12.4 inches tall.
- Before Gerald left the old tower (_my tower_) which was alone spared by the flames, and at which he had resided, though without his household, rather than quit
- You're right, the Eiffel tower is not worth the time it takes, but if the weather is nice, you should go up the second highest building in Paris, the Tour Montparnasse.
- Despite the seemingly remote location, I get 4 bars on my cell phone when I'm standing at the top of the knoll, since a cell tower is located within line-of-sight, 10 miles away.
- Developed and contracted by Brookfield Europe, the tower is a tricky engineering feat indeed, especially granted the gusty blasts of wind that construction crews had to deal with while raising it.
- An ancient Roman tower, of which a few walls only now remain, on the route to Agen, was once a conspicuous object from the river: it was called _La Tourrasse_, ( "_enormous tower_" in _patois_), and many discoveries prove the importance of this place in the time of the
- For example, consider the widely accepted sixteenth-century ˜tower argument™ against the Copernican claim that the earth moves: the earth can't be moving, because a stone released from a tower will fall ˜straight down™ to the foot of the tower, and not land some distance to the west as apparently required by Copernicus.
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