tower
(noun) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
tugboat, tug, towboat, tower
(noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
column, tower, pillar
(noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower; “the test tube held a column of white powder”; “a tower of dust rose above the horizon”; “a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite”
loom, tower, predominate, hulk
(verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position; “The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain”; “Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tower (plural towers)
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) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually 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.
• donjon
tower (third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered)
(intransitive) To be very tall.
(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
(obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
tower (plural towers)
One who tows.
• towre, twoer, wrote
Tower
(UK, with 'the') The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
(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.
• towre, twoer, wrote
Source: Wiktionary
Tow"er, n. Etym: [OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin to Gr. twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor, Turret.]
1. (Arch.) (a) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. (b) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. (c) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Ps. lxi. 3.
3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.
4. High flight; elevation. [Obs.] Johnson. Gay Lussac's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below.
– Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above.
– Round tower. See under Round, a.
– Shot tower. See under Shot.
– Tower bastion (Fort.), a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.
– Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata.
– Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.
Tow"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. towered; p. pr. & vb. n. towering.]
Definition: To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. On the other side an high rock towered still. Spenser. My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. Shak.
Tow"er, v. t.
Definition: To soar into. [Obs.] Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
