Meaning

• 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. An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
  7. (informal) Short for interlocking tower..
  8. A strong refuge; a defence.
  9. 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. 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