Tower

['taʊə] or ['taʊɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building.

编辑:梅尔维尔--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

(n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

(n.) High flight; elevation.

(v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

(v. t.) To soar into.

杰奎琳编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Turret, MINARET.[2]. Citadel, fortress, castle, stronghold.

v. n. Soar, mount, rise.

整理:塔尼娅

解释:

n. a lofty building standing alone or forming part of another: a fortress: (her.) a bearing representing a tower with battlements &c.: a high head-dress worn by women under William III. and Anne.—v.i. to rise into the air: to be lofty.—v.t. (Milt.) to rise aloft into.—adjs. Tow′ered having towers; Tow′ering very high elevated: very violent; Tow′ery having towers: lofty.

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