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Definition of tower in English: towernoun ˈtaʊəˈtaʊ(ə)r 1A tall, narrow building, either free-standing or forming part of a building such as a church or castle. 塔；塔楼 the south-west tower is a wonderful example of late Gothic Example sentencesExamples - The Anglican Church has given its blessing for mobile phone masts to be erected in two of its church towers in Yorkshire - just as long as they're not used to transmit porn.
- The principal vertical features are minarets or towers at corners (from which the faithful are called to prayer).
- After that they started a long trek up to one of the tallest towers of the castle.
- Churches, with high towers on buildings right in the centre of their community, are seen as ideal locations for the next generation of communication masts.
- Located between mid-rise warehouses and residential towers, this building mediates the variations in scale and context.
- I look out the window, at the turrets and towers of the renovated castle, and wonder how I got here in the first place.
- The database includes field elevation around the country, obstructions, buildings, tall towers and the like.
- I imagined a massive white marble building with towers, turrets, the whole lot.
- The castle has six towers and some twenty distinct roof forms.
- It was in the tallest tower of the castle, and it was dimly lit.
- Most of the tall buildings and towers no longer stood.
- Between them run narrow alleys affording breathtaking views over the roofscape and church towers of central Stockholm.
- Lisbon is all pastel walls and soft light; Porto has a more northern feel, with its granite church towers and baroque treasures.
- It runs along something of a ridge so we could see for miles to villages betrayed by church towers and spires.
- Climbing to the top of a tall building, a hill, or a church tower is a great way to get a feel for a place.
- They are known to use many human structures like barns, church towers and ledges of tall buildings as their daytime roost.
- Higher buildings like church towers only have two traversable levels and much of the land is devoid of any low brush vegetation.
- A church tower crashed to the ground and a mosque's silver dome caved in.
- It was completely surrounded by an ancient wall - with turrets and towers - and old churches and cobbled stone streets.
- The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill.
Synonyms steeple, spire column, pillar, obelisk - 1.1 A fortress or stronghold in the form of or including a tower.
Synonyms fort, castle, citadel, blockhouse, burg, keep, donjon, turret, bunker - 1.2the Tower
2with modifier A tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc. （有设备存放及操作员工作空间的）塔楼，塔台 Example sentencesExamples - Its most outstanding feature is the Turret House, built as a gatehouse and hunting tower and constructed in the French style, possibly due to Mary's influence.
- Due to a hill between the television tower and my house, I rely on Austar for TV reception.
- When testing for the safety of cell sites in Australia researchers used the TV towers in North Sydney.
- At the end, it was estimated that there were fewer than two dozen radio towers in operation and calls had slowed to a trickle.
- Every cluster was in the vicinity of a cell tower, a radio or TV tower, or an amateur radio operator.
- Here is a top-secret photo taken by one of our clandestine operatives of the guard tower at one of these camps.
- He got the fairgrounds, but other project aspects, such as a bid to build the world's tallest antenna tower, faltered.
- A single man oversaw the entire operation from the command tower.
- The balloon hit this 700-foot tall radio tower during the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.
- The Liberation Tower is the fifth tallest communication tower in the world.
- The men in the guard towers were waving their machine guns at us.
- Operators of wind towers will tend to want to build them in mountainous areas with high winds and along shorelines and thereby ruin some beautiful scenic vistas.
- The armed separatist group placed bombs on two high-tension electricity towers run by grid operator Red Electrica.
- But the controversy centers on radio towers and other transmitters, not car-radio antennae.
- Airport officials used another tower to maintain operations during the incident.
- On the right is the lifeguard tower and the Adamson House.
- In the months and years to follow, it would harden into a massive barrier of concrete blocks, barbed wire, machine gun towers, and minefields.
- Future studies may potentially elucidate ways in which humans can alleviate the toll of communications towers on migrating birds.
- A company is building a huge cell phone tower across the road from my house and property at this very moment.
- Initiate a Notice of Inquiry to assess the impact of communications towers on migratory birds.
- 2.1with modifier A tall structure used as a receptacle or for storage.
（存储用的）塔，塔式容器 一个塔式光盘架。 Example sentencesExamples - The tall grain tower was hardly anywhere near civilization.
- Police searched his house on March 4 this year and a computer tower and storage media were found containing 95 images in total.
- Her CD collection was arranged alphabetically in a tall CD tower, and she always kept her favorite ones of the moment on the top.
- 2.2 A tall pile or mass of something.
塔状堆积物 a titanic tower of garbage 巨大的一堆塔状垃圾。 Example sentencesExamples - There are mini backlit towers of wine bottles stacked behind the bar, and each place is set with a spotless wineglass and crisp, white linens.
- Invite the children to help you make a tower with the books and talk about favorite stories as you take the books out of the box.
- I'd gone to interview her in 1994 and found a copy of it in a second-hand bookstore in Exmouth, crawling around on the floor to explore the towers of books haphazardly piled there.
verb ˈtaʊəˈtaʊ(ə)r [no object]1Rise to or reach a great height. 高耸，屹立 he seemed to tower over everyone else 他似乎比其他人都高。 Example sentencesExamples - Books tower over us and are crammed into every gap in the structure.
- Rising to a height of 6 or 7 feet, these drawings tower over the viewer.
- A couple of old fir trees tower over the field, and yes, there's a house, a driveway, a garage, all well-kept.
- Big pines tower over the homes, flower boxes line stone walkways, and a wooden wagon wheel leans against one home in a gesture of artificial rusticity.
- Bangalore is a city that just grows on you, the way its trees have grown, to tower over the landscape.
- And every time we stand around the bar, they tower over me and block out the light.
- Its second-growth oaks, hickories, and sugar maples tower over the open pastures and fields of the lower slope and bottomland.
- A major housing development in Colchester will tower over nearby homes, residents claimed today.
- It will tower over the community for years, a constant reminder of bureaucracy's triumph over democracy.
- This time a massive hydrogen bomb lifts its manmade plumes until they tower over the natural clouds.
- For the next two weeks it will tower over the stadium as it is used to manoeuvre the roof of the two-tier West Stand into place.
- The trees which tower over the tables can't help but prove relaxing, something most desired when heading out for a drink after a long day.
- They will tower over drivers from either side of slip road exits and entrances at junction three for the 12-month trial period.
- The group objected to the development's design and height, stating it would tower over the neighbourhood.
- Here, sheer limestone cliffs tower over gentle pastures and provide what many people believe is the finest scenery in the Alps.
- Tony towered over her, like he did while on the horse, like Fellini's women tower over him.
- The weakness of the mother (who is admittedly ill) in comparison to her son allows the male to tower over the female.
- You wish you were wearing the boots with three-inch heels instead of the boots with one-inch heels so you could tower over him even more than you already do.
- They fear the development will tower over the estate, reducing privacy and blocking light to nearby homes.
- Your cool new platforms make you tower over the guys - so what?
Synonyms soar, rise, loom, ascend, mount, rear, reach high, stand high overshadow, overlook, overhang, hang over, dominate 2(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry. （尤指猎鹰为捕抓猎物俯冲前）高飞，翱翔 Example sentencesExamples - The big ticket item was a US Air Force B1 Bomber, which towered over the surrounding displays like a massive bird of prey.
OriginOld English torr, reinforced in Middle English by Old French tour, from Latin turris, from Greek. This comes ultimately from Greek via Latin and French tour. The phrase tower of strength is from a use in the Book of Common Prayer: ‘O Lord…be unto them a tower of strength’ and originally meant ‘a strong tower’. A turret (Middle English), in Old French tourete, is a little tower.
Rhymesbower, cower, devour, dower, embower, empower, endower, flour, flower, gaur, Glendower, glower, hour, lour, lower, our, plougher (US plower), power, scour, shower, sour, Stour, sweet-and-sour anoa, Balboa, blower, boa, foregoer, goer, grower, hoer, jerboa, knower, Krakatoa, Lebowa, lower, moa, mower, Mururoa, Noah, o'er, proa, protozoa, rower, Samoa, sewer, Shenandoah, shower, sower, spermatozoa, Stour, thrower Definition of tower in US English: towernounˈtaʊ(ə)rˈtou(ə)r 1A tall, narrow building, either freestanding or forming part of a building such as a church or castle. 塔；塔楼 the south-west tower is a wonderful example of late Gothic Example sentencesExamples - Higher buildings like church towers only have two traversable levels and much of the land is devoid of any low brush vegetation.
- It was completely surrounded by an ancient wall - with turrets and towers - and old churches and cobbled stone streets.
- Churches, with high towers on buildings right in the centre of their community, are seen as ideal locations for the next generation of communication masts.
- I look out the window, at the turrets and towers of the renovated castle, and wonder how I got here in the first place.
- It was in the tallest tower of the castle, and it was dimly lit.
- The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill.
- After that they started a long trek up to one of the tallest towers of the castle.
- It runs along something of a ridge so we could see for miles to villages betrayed by church towers and spires.
- Most of the tall buildings and towers no longer stood.
- They are known to use many human structures like barns, church towers and ledges of tall buildings as their daytime roost.
- Located between mid-rise warehouses and residential towers, this building mediates the variations in scale and context.
- The principal vertical features are minarets or towers at corners (from which the faithful are called to prayer).
- Between them run narrow alleys affording breathtaking views over the roofscape and church towers of central Stockholm.
- Climbing to the top of a tall building, a hill, or a church tower is a great way to get a feel for a place.
- The castle has six towers and some twenty distinct roof forms.
- I imagined a massive white marble building with towers, turrets, the whole lot.
- The Anglican Church has given its blessing for mobile phone masts to be erected in two of its church towers in Yorkshire - just as long as they're not used to transmit porn.
- A church tower crashed to the ground and a mosque's silver dome caved in.
- The database includes field elevation around the country, obstructions, buildings, tall towers and the like.
- Lisbon is all pastel walls and soft light; Porto has a more northern feel, with its granite church towers and baroque treasures.
- 1.1 A fortress or stronghold in the form of or including a tower.
Synonyms fort, castle, citadel, blockhouse, burg, keep, donjon, turret, bunker - 1.2the Tower
2with modifier A tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc. （有设备存放及操作员工作空间的）塔楼，塔台 Example sentencesExamples - Here is a top-secret photo taken by one of our clandestine operatives of the guard tower at one of these camps.
- Airport officials used another tower to maintain operations during the incident.
- Its most outstanding feature is the Turret House, built as a gatehouse and hunting tower and constructed in the French style, possibly due to Mary's influence.
- Every cluster was in the vicinity of a cell tower, a radio or TV tower, or an amateur radio operator.
- The armed separatist group placed bombs on two high-tension electricity towers run by grid operator Red Electrica.
- Initiate a Notice of Inquiry to assess the impact of communications towers on migratory birds.
- The balloon hit this 700-foot tall radio tower during the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.
- The Liberation Tower is the fifth tallest communication tower in the world.
- He got the fairgrounds, but other project aspects, such as a bid to build the world's tallest antenna tower, faltered.
- But the controversy centers on radio towers and other transmitters, not car-radio antennae.
- On the right is the lifeguard tower and the Adamson House.
- Future studies may potentially elucidate ways in which humans can alleviate the toll of communications towers on migrating birds.
- In the months and years to follow, it would harden into a massive barrier of concrete blocks, barbed wire, machine gun towers, and minefields.
- Due to a hill between the television tower and my house, I rely on Austar for TV reception.
- A company is building a huge cell phone tower across the road from my house and property at this very moment.
- The men in the guard towers were waving their machine guns at us.
- At the end, it was estimated that there were fewer than two dozen radio towers in operation and calls had slowed to a trickle.
- A single man oversaw the entire operation from the command tower.
- Operators of wind towers will tend to want to build them in mountainous areas with high winds and along shorelines and thereby ruin some beautiful scenic vistas.
- When testing for the safety of cell sites in Australia researchers used the TV towers in North Sydney.
- 2.1with modifier A tall structure used as a receptacle or for storage.
（存储用的）塔，塔式容器 一个塔式光盘架。 Example sentencesExamples - Police searched his house on March 4 this year and a computer tower and storage media were found containing 95 images in total.
- Her CD collection was arranged alphabetically in a tall CD tower, and she always kept her favorite ones of the moment on the top.
- The tall grain tower was hardly anywhere near civilization.
- 2.2 A tall pile or mass of something.
塔状堆积物 a titanic tower of garbage 巨大的一堆塔状垃圾。 Example sentencesExamples - There are mini backlit towers of wine bottles stacked behind the bar, and each place is set with a spotless wineglass and crisp, white linens.
- I'd gone to interview her in 1994 and found a copy of it in a second-hand bookstore in Exmouth, crawling around on the floor to explore the towers of books haphazardly piled there.
- Invite the children to help you make a tower with the books and talk about favorite stories as you take the books out of the box.
verbˈtaʊ(ə)rˈtou(ə)r [no object]1Rise to or reach a great height. 高耸，屹立 he seemed to tower over everyone else 他似乎比其他人都高。 Example sentencesExamples - This time a massive hydrogen bomb lifts its manmade plumes until they tower over the natural clouds.
- You wish you were wearing the boots with three-inch heels instead of the boots with one-inch heels so you could tower over him even more than you already do.
- A couple of old fir trees tower over the field, and yes, there's a house, a driveway, a garage, all well-kept.
- The trees which tower over the tables can't help but prove relaxing, something most desired when heading out for a drink after a long day.
- Books tower over us and are crammed into every gap in the structure.
- Bangalore is a city that just grows on you, the way its trees have grown, to tower over the landscape.
- Its second-growth oaks, hickories, and sugar maples tower over the open pastures and fields of the lower slope and bottomland.
- And every time we stand around the bar, they tower over me and block out the light.
- For the next two weeks it will tower over the stadium as it is used to manoeuvre the roof of the two-tier West Stand into place.
- The weakness of the mother (who is admittedly ill) in comparison to her son allows the male to tower over the female.
- Big pines tower over the homes, flower boxes line stone walkways, and a wooden wagon wheel leans against one home in a gesture of artificial rusticity.
- Tony towered over her, like he did while on the horse, like Fellini's women tower over him.
- Here, sheer limestone cliffs tower over gentle pastures and provide what many people believe is the finest scenery in the Alps.
- A major housing development in Colchester will tower over nearby homes, residents claimed today.
- The group objected to the development's design and height, stating it would tower over the neighbourhood.
- They fear the development will tower over the estate, reducing privacy and blocking light to nearby homes.
- Your cool new platforms make you tower over the guys - so what?
- Rising to a height of 6 or 7 feet, these drawings tower over the viewer.
- They will tower over drivers from either side of slip road exits and entrances at junction three for the 12-month trial period.
- It will tower over the community for years, a constant reminder of bureaucracy's triumph over democracy.
Synonyms soar, rise, loom, ascend, mount, rear, reach high, stand high 2(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry. （尤指猎鹰为捕抓猎物俯冲前）高飞，翱翔 Example sentencesExamples - The big ticket item was a US Air Force B1 Bomber, which towered over the surrounding displays like a massive bird of prey.
OriginOld English torr, reinforced in Middle English by Old French tour, from Latin turris, from Greek. |