tower

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
2. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
3. A water tower.
4. A control tower.
5. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
6. (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal) Ellipsis of interlocking tower.
8. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
9. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
10. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
11. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
12. The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
13. (collective) A group of giraffes.
14. Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
15. A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be very tall.
2. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.

Conceptes

torre

remolcador

elevar-se

encimbellar

enlairar-se

encastellar-se

casa de déu

columna

la torre

Sinònims

rise

spire

turret

pagoda

lookout

soar

tugboat

predominate

platform

towboat

castle

🏰

terrace

rear

tug

dominate

heighten

pillar

column

hulk

keep

pylon

lift

columnar

columned

loom

citadel

stage

steeple

prick

protrude

raise

rise up

rook

room

sail

spring

stand out

stronghold

tall

tower block

towing

transude

uplift

uprise

wing

🪽

narrow boat

tall building

tower above

watch-tower

dagoba

Traduccions

tour

Turm

torre

toren

torre

torre

turris

πύργος

برج

🏰

kule

emporragen

torre

ragen

torrione

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: tour

Heretat de anglès antic: tūr

Cognat amb escocès: tour

Cognat amb frisó occidental: toer

Cognat amb neerlandès: toren

Cognat amb alemany: Turm

Cognat amb danès: tårn

Cognat amb suec: torn

Cognat amb islandès: turn

Cognat amb gal·lès: tŵr

Heretat de anglès mitjà: touren

Heretat de anglès antic: *torrian

In summary

From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis).
Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr.
Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret.

Frases

We first met each other under the Eiffel tower , it was magical .

A grounded tower also simplifies the installation of aircraft warning lamps .