tower

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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.

Từ đồng nghĩa

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

Bản dịch

tour

Turm

torre

toren

torre

torre

turris

πύργος

torre

kule

برج

🏰

emporragen

torrione

ragen

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh Trung cổ: tour

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh cổ: tūr

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Scots: tour

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Frisia: toer

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Hà Lan: toren

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Đức: Turm

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Đan Mạch: tårn

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Thụy Điển: torn

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Iceland: turn

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Wales: tŵr

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh Trung cổ: touren

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh cổ: *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.

Câu

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

Lần đầu tiên chúng tôi gặp nhau dưới Tháp Eiffel, nó thật kỳ diệu.

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