tower

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

torre

elevarse

defensa

fortaleza

obstrucción

remolcador

alzarse

castillete

cobijo

empinarse

encumbrarse

erguirse

remontars

sobresalir

altar de ofrendas

centros ceremoniales

lugar de fortaleza

lugares sagrados

recinto fortificado

la casa de dios

castillo

🏰

térem

columna

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

tour

Turm

toren

torre

torre

turris

πύργος

torre

برج

🏰

kule

emporragen

torrione

ragen

torre

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: tour

Heredado de inglés antiguo: tūr

Cognado con escocés: tour

Cognado con frisón occidental: toer

Cognado con neerlandés: toren

Cognado con alemán: Turm

Cognado con danés: tårn

Cognado con sueco: torn

Cognado con islandés: turn

Cognado con galés: tŵr

Heredado de inglés medio: touren

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *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.

Oraciones

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

Primero nos conocimos debajo de la Torre Eiffel, fue mágico.

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