| 单词 | tower |
| 释义 | tower (once / 93 pages) 1nv 2n A tower is a tall structure, with the diameter of its base less than its height. Rapunzel lived in a tower. If you have a super tall friend and you're short, you could say they tower over you. Towers can come in handy––you can build one and climb to the top, looking out for approaching enemies, or in the case of a fire tower, for early signs of forest fires. One of the most famous towers is the Tower of London, with its long-held reputation as a place of torture and execution. Most people are surprised to learn that only seven people were executed in the Tower. WORD FAMILYtower: towered, towering, towers+/tow: towage, towed, tower, towing, tows/towering: toweringly USAGE EXAMPLESIt is truly enormous; from the tall observation tower, the ranks of black panels stretch almost to the horizon. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) The plan will result in towering structures in the wrong places, a paucity of parks, crowded schools and a continuation of nightmare-inducing traffic. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) In an adjacent anteroom, there’s a stationary bike, 15-pound weights, a multipurpose fitness tower and a TRX suspension trainer hanging on the door. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building Exp|Hypo|Hyper CN Tower a tower in Toronto; 1815 feet tall for broadcasting widely Eiffel Towera wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889; for many years it was the tallest man-made structure Space Needlea tower 605 feet tall in Seattle; a tourist attraction Leaning Tower of Pisaa tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174 Tower of Pharosa great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC barbacan, barbican a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) beacon, beacon light, lighthouse, pharosa tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships bell towera tower that supports or shelters a bell church towerthe tower of a church clock towera tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face control towera tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport high-rise, tower blocktower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments minaretslender tower with balconies mooring mast, mooring towera tower for mooring airships power pylon, pylona large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines pylona tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race shot towertower of a kind once used to make shot; molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water siloa cylindrical tower used for storing silage spire, steeplea tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top supporting towera tower that serves to support something turreta small tower extending above a building watchtoweran observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies belfry, campanilea bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building fire towera watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires pinnacle(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower trestlea supporting tower used to support a bridge construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 2n anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower a tower of dust rose above the horizon Syn|Hypo|Hyper column, pillar columella a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal hoodoo(geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock form, shape the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance 3v appear very large or occupy a commanding position 2Syn|Hyper hulk, loom, predominate lift, rear, rise rise up n a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships Syn|Hyper towboat, tug, tugboat boat a small vessel for travel on water |
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