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Definition: Tower |
TowerNoun1. A structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building. 2. Anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower; "the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite". 3. A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships. Verb1. Appear very large. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tower" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a tower, denotes that you will aspire to high elevations. If you climb one, you will succeed in your wishes, but if the tower crumbles as you descend, you will be disappointed in your hopes. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | Support which may be made of any material, comprising a body which is normally four-sided, with cross-arms. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. See:tourb. A misnomer for derrick and an incorrect spelling of tour. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A facility in which various chemical processes such as distillation, rectification, extraction, etc. are carried out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | TOWER. Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Weather | (Short for towering cumulus), a cloud element showing appreciable upward vertical development. (references) |
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A tower is a high structure, usually man-made. (Though the sea can erode the land and make a tower or pillar.)
The Eiffel Tower.
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Purposes of the large height (a tower may have multiple purposes):
A tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, firefighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming, etc.
- being impressive and beautiful
- saving surface area
- for the view
- for tourism
- for guiding: traffic control tower, in particular at an airport
- for security against coming in or getting out: a watch tower at a prison, concentration camp, fortress/castle, border/defensive wall; in some of these cases also to fire from;
- for watching out for fire, especially in a forest: fire tower;
- for spreading light: light tower, lighthouse
- for spreading sound: church tower with church bells, minaret of a mosque
- antenna tower
- for use of the gravity: water tower
- as part of a suspension bridge or cable-stayed bridge
- for supporting power and signal cables
- in a swimming pool for jumping from a height
- for fun of climbing in it, for example on a children's playground
- the tower of a high slide, for supporting it and with stairs for reaching the starting point
- to gain access for maintenance or cleaning, e.g. scaffold tower
- for attacking a walled city: siege tower
- to reach heaven (legendary Tower of Babel)
- for some unknown reason, skyscrapers aren't thought of as towers.
See also:
- Eiffel Tower
- Petronas Tower
- Tower of London
- World's tallest structures
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The Tower of London
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The Tower of London is officially "Her Majesty's Palace and Fortress, The Tower of London," although the last ruler to reside in it as a palace was King James I. The "White Tower," the square building with turrets on each corner that gave it its name, is actually in the middle of a complex of several buildings along the River Thames in London, which have served as fortress, armory, treasury, mint, palace, place of execution, public records office, observatory, refuge, and prison, particularly for "upper class" prisoners. This last use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower" meaning "imprisoned". Elizabeth I was imprisoned for a time in the Tower during her sister Mary's reign; the last known use of the Tower as a prison was during World War II, for Rudolf Hess.
In 1078 William the Conqueror ordered the White Tower to be built there, as much to protect the Normans from the people of the City of London as to protect London from anyone else. Earlier forts there, including the Roman one, had primarily wooden buildings, but William ordered his tower to be of stone. It was King Richard the Lionheart who had the moat dug around the surrounding wall and filled with water from the Thames. The moat was not very successful until Henry III employed a Dutch moat building technique. (It was drained in 1830, and human bones were in the refuse found at its bottom.)
A Royal Menagerie was established at the Tower in the 13th century, possibly as early as 1204 in the reign of King John, and possibly stocked with animals from an earlier menagerie started in 1125 by Henry I at his palace in Woodstock, near Oxford. Its year of origin is often stated as 1235, when Henry III received a wedding gift of three leopards (so recorded, although they may have been lions) from Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1264 it was moved to the Bulwark, which was duly renamed the Lion Tower, near the main western entrance. It was opened as an occasional public spectacle in the reign of Elizabeth I. By 1804 the menagerie was regularly open to the public. This was where William Blake saw the tiger that inspired his poem. The menagerie's last director, Alfred Cops, who took over in 1822, found the collection in a dismal state, but restocked it and issued an illustrated scientific catalogue. Unfortunately for him, the menagerie was not to last. The new London Zoo was due to open in Regent's Park and, partly for commercial reasons and partly for animal welfare, the animals were moved to the zoo. The last of the animals left in 1835, and most of the Lion Tower was demolished soon after, although Lion Gate remains.
Although lower-class criminals were usually executed by hanging at one of the public execution sites outside the Tower, and several high-profile convicts, such as Thomas More, were publicly executed on Tower Hill, nobles (especially ladies) were sometimes beheaded privately on Tower Green, inside the complex, and then buried in the "Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula" (Latin for "in chains," making him an appropriate patron saint for prisoners) next to the Green. Some of the nobles who were executed outside the Tower are also buried in that chapel. (External link to Chapel webpage)
George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was executed (for treason) in the Tower in February 1478, but not by beheading (and probably not by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine, despite what Shakespeare wrote). Edward IV's two sons, the Princes in the Tower, may also have died there after their uncle Richard III became king, but they were not executed for conviction of any crime, and what happened to them is still a mystery.
- Persons beheaded inside the Tower for treason:
- William, 1st Lord Hastings (1483)
- Anne Boleyn (1536)
- Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1541)
- Catherine Howard (1542)
- Jane Parker, Lady Rochford (1542)
- Lady Jane Grey (1554)
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1601)
The Tower of London
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The military use of the Tower as a fortification, like that of other such castles, became obsolete with the introduction of artillery. However the Tower did serve as the headquarters of the Board of Ordnance until 1855, and the Tower was still occasionally used as a prison, even through both World Wars. In 1780, the Tower held its only American prisoner, former President of the Continental Congress, Henry Laurens. In World War I, 11 German spies were shot in the tower, and Corporal Josef Jakobs became the last German spy to be shot on August 15, 1940 during World War II. In the following year, Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, was imprisoned for 4 days. Waterloo Barracks, the current location of the Crown Jewels, remained in use as a base for the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) into the 1950s.
The Tower today is a tourist attraction, featuring the British Crown Jewels, as well as the buildings themselves, a fine armour collection, and a remnant of the wall of the Roman fortress that Claudius built there to protect the city of Londinium. In deference to an ancient legend, a number of ravenss are fed at the Tower at government expense; so long as the ravens remain at the Tower, England is safe from invasion. The names of the seven ravens currently in the tower are Hardey, Thor, Odin, Gwyllum, Cedric, Hugin and Munin.
Nearest rail and tube stations:
Tower of London is also the title of a 1939 film, starring Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff, about King Richard III and the Princes in the Tower.
- Tower Hill tube station (District, Circle lines)
- Tower Gateway DLR station (Docklands Light Railway)
See also: London Wall
External Links
References
- Bennett, Edward Turner, The Tower Menagerie: Comprising the Natural History of the Animals Contained in that Establishment; with Anecdotes of their Characters and History, London, Robert Jennings, 1829
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Tower is a city located in St. Louis County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 479.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²). 7.0 km² (2.7 mi²) of it is land and 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 12.86% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 479 people, 233 households, and 137 families residing in the city. The population density is 68.2/km² (176.8/mi²). There are 295 housing units at an average density of 42.0/km² (108.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.70% White, 0.00% African American, 1.46% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.84% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 1.88% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 233 households out of which 20.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.9% are married couples living together, 6.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 41.2% are non-families. 37.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 22.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.06 and the average family size is 2.69. In the city the population is spread out with 18.6% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 24.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 45 years. For every 100 females there are 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.2 males. The median income for a household in the city is $26,429, and the median income for a family is $37,500. Males have a median income of $35,000 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,169. 10.7% of the population and 3.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 12.5% are under the age of 18 and 10.9% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tower, Minnesota."
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The Tribune Tower is a gothic building located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Tribune and the Tribune Corporation.In 1922, the Chicago Tribune hosted a competition with a $50,000 prize to find an architectural firm to design its headquarters. More than 260 entries were received, including a design by Eliel Saarinen, which took second place. The winner of the competition was the gothic design by Hood and Howells. There are carved images of Robin Hood and a howling dog near the entrance to commemorate the architects.
Construction began and the tower was completed in 1925 and reached a height of 462 feet (141 meters) above ground. Prior to the building of the Tribune Tower, correspondents for the Chicago Tribune brought back rocks and bricks from a variety of historically important sites throughout the world. Many of these relives have been incorporated into the lowest levels of the building and are labeled with their location of origin. These include the Taj Mahal, Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb, and the Berlin Wall. In all, there are 136 fragments in the building.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TOWER | English | Testing,Orientation,and Work Evaluation in Rehabilitation | N/A |
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Synonyms: TowerSynonyms: column (n), pillar (n), towboat (n), tug (n), tugboat (n), hulk (v), loom (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple. |
Ascent | Go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap. |
Calefaction | Still; refinery; fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower. |
Defense | Hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum; (refuge); keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls. |
Greatness | Verb: be great; Adjective: run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount. |
Height | Verb: be high; Adjective: tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over;orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop; (be superior); stand on tiptoe. |
Tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola;skyscraper. | |
Indication | Signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight. |
Influence | Tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices. |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
Obliquity | Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa. |
Production | Edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit. |
Stability | Establishment, fixture; rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin. |
Strength | Athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I haven't even touched you yet and you're turning into the Sears Tower. (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) I want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day. Just mail him his clothes (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: Bruce Geller; David Koepp) I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) There's a party at the Moon Tower, well alright (Dazed and Confused; writing credit: Richard Linklater) | |
Lyrics | As that ivory tower ("Friends in Low Places"; performing artist: Garth Brooks) And visit a nearby tower (Alone Again (Naturally); performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) And I look up into the big tower clock (Gloria; performing artist: Patti Smith) I pull you from your tower (Adia; performing artist: Sarah McLachlan) There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea. (Kiss From A Rose; performing artist: Seal) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tower of Love (1973) Der Würger vom Tower (1966) Tower House (1962) The Cruel Tower (1956) Black Tower (1950) | |
Song Titles | Tower of Strength (performing artist: Gene McDaniels) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is the exterior of the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) taken from the west. On some shots has the glow from the sunset on the tower of the hospital. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |  | Newton field station tower used for mosquito population count. Credit: CDC. |
 | Eiffel Tower from across Seine River, Paris, France. Credit: CDC. |  | Icicles on the Launch Tower. Credit: NASA. |
 | Goddard's Rocket as seen from the Launching Tower. Credit: NASA. |  | Shoran antenna installed on radar tower Shoran array installed by party off of LYDONIA. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Microwave navigation system - shore installation on tower Tower merely a platform and not loaded A line-of-sight system -- the higher the tower, the further the reception Tested on SOSBEE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Richard Bourgerie of the NOAA NOS CO-OPS office atop the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge on a glorious fall day. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | View from the top of the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge looking down onto the deck of the bridge. The surface of the water is more than 700 feet below. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Observing tower with wind screen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Ruined tower" by Leonid Doroshenko Commentary: "Ruined tower of the Kremenets fortress. Location: Kremenets, Ternopil region, Ukraine." | "The tower" by Psychoduck Commentary: "The tower of london." |
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 | Wolf howling with clock tower chiming in the background. |
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Lao-Tzu | A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We must make sure that its work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in a Tower of Babel. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was the meaning of Tower of Ivory |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Think on the Tower and me. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was very desirous to see the chief temple, and particularly the tower belonging to it, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom |
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Business | Also tower cranes, electric stairways, walk ways, chair lifts, funiculars. (references) | |
In Korea the tower crane is re-classified as mobile type, or non-mobile type by operating application. (references) | ||
Some rent tower cranes, while others handle scaffolding for construction sites or excavators, bulldozers and tippers. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | The Government also has banned all written materials published by the Jehovah's Witnesses' publishing affiliates, the International Bible Students Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. (references) |
Economic History | Egypt | They will probably also require control tower equipment and aircraft simulator support. (references) |
Yemen | Aden International Airport has been renovated, including its terminal, tower, navigational equipment, and runway. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | This air transportation facility is equipped with a high-tech radio control tower, a computerized customs system, and a comfortable passenger terminal. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bahamas | In March a total of 27 air traffic controllers were placed on administrative leave and removed from the air traffic control tower at Nassau International Airport for engaging in industrial actions while negotiations were in progress, contrary to a negotiated agreement with the Government. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge; as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his glory on the Plain of Shinar. From Babel comes our English word "babble." Under whatever name worshiped, Baal is the Sun-god. As Beelzebub he is the god of flies, which are begotten of the sun's rays on the stagnant water. In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom. |
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Bill Clinton | I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, my God, a second plane has hit the tower. And I said, bin Laden did this. That's the first thing I said. |
Dennis Miller | For every misguided soul raised in a permissive hippie atmosphere who turns into a John Walker Lindh, there are a thousand more who become the gentle stoner cashiers trying to push the new Phil Lesh solo album on you at Tower Records. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men. |
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| "Tower" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.51% of the time. "Tower" is used about 2,821 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.51% | 2,074 | 4,188 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.6% | 722 | 9,327 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.78% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,821 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tower" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tower | Last name | 2,000 | 5,077 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "tower". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Magdala | N/A | Biblical | Tower |
| Migdalel | N/A | Biblical | Tower of God |
| Migdalgad | N/A | Biblical | Tower compassed about |
| Migdol | N/A | Biblical | A tower |
| Ophel | N/A | Biblical | A tower |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Japan Steel Tower Co., Ltd. | New Zealand | Tower Limited |
| USA | American Tower Corporation | ||
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1. Tower, MI 2. Tower, MN (city, FIPS 65272) |
Expressions using "tower": absorption tower ♦ aerodrome control tower ♦ air traffic control tower ♦ airport control tower ♦ anemometer tower ♦ antenna tower ♦ bell tower ♦ bridge tower ♦ bubble tower ♦ chimney cooling tower ♦ chimney tower ♦ church tower ♦ clock tower ♦ coal tower ♦ connecting tower ♦ conning tower ♦ control tower ♦ cooling tower ♦ cooling tower fill ♦ cooling tower plume ♦ cooling tower pond ♦ cracking tower ♦ Devils Tower ♦ diving tower ♦ eiffel tower ♦ fire tower ♦ fractionating tower ♦ Gay Lussac's tower ♦ Glover's tower ♦ Grand Tower ♦ hybrid cooling tower ♦ hyperbolic cooling tower ♦ hyperbolic tower ♦ ivory tower ♦ karst tower ♦ lift tower ♦ live in an ivory tower ♦ lofty tower ♦ Maiden tower ♦ martello tower ♦ meteorological tower ♦ mooring tower ♦ moveable tower scaffolding ♦ observation tower ♦ office tower block ♦ outlook tower ♦ rood tower ♦ round tower ♦ shot tower ♦ signal tower ♦ stair tower ♦ supporting tower ♦ the leaning tower of pisa ♦ the tower of babel ♦ topping tower ♦ tower above ♦ tower above one's contemporaries ♦ Tower bastion ♦ tower block ♦ tower body ♦ Tower City ♦ tower crane ♦ tower cress ♦ tower cupola ♦ Tower Hill ♦ Tower Lakes ♦ tower mustard ♦ tower of babel ♦ tower of london ♦ tower of Pisa ♦ tower of Silence ♦ tower of strength ♦ tower of the furnaces ♦ tower over ♦ tower roof ♦ tower stove ♦ tower Technology Corporation ♦ tower up ♦ traffic control tower ♦ transmission tower ♦ VFR tower ♦ watch tower ♦ water tower ♦ wetdry tower. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tower": tower-block, tower-blocks, tower-clock, tower-house, tower-tops. | |
Ending with "tower": bell-tower, watch-tower. | |
Containing "tower": Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tower record | 6,748 | tower city amphitheater | 353 |
twin tower | 4,980 | eiffel tower paris | 343 |
eiffel tower | 3,396 | leaning tower of pisa | 343 |
icy tower | 2,496 | two tower dvd | 327 |
tower hobby | 2,171 | clock tower 3 | 318 |
two tower | 2,135 | tower federal credit union | 318 |
lord of the ring the two tower | 2,095 | cooling tower | 306 |
tower | 2,069 | tower perrin | 302 |
tiffany tower | 1,089 | tower records.com | 249 |
alton tower | 909 | dark tower | 241 |
tower of london | 860 | stratosphere tower | 239 |
sears tower | 849 | eiffel tower picture | 233 |
cn tower | 804 | cd tower | 229 |
wakeboard tower | 585 | tower computer | 224 |
the two tower game | 571 | petronas tower | 216 |
clock tower | 543 | dvd lord ring tower two | 215 |
devil tower | 466 | cheat lord ring tower two | 211 |
tower of power | 449 | water tower | 192 |
sim tower | 414 | tower fan | 186 |
mah jong tower | 375 | a picture of the twin tower | 184 |
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| Language | Translations for "tower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | toring (castle, rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Albanian | kullë (Barton, bastion, belfry, rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبنى مرتفع, قلعة (castle, citadel, fort, fortress, stronghold), حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, take off, throat, trim), حصن (arm, bastion, beef up, bulwark, castle, chateau, citadel, entrench, fort, fortification, fortify, fortress, hold, immunize, redoubt, stronghold, trench), تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, eclipse, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, mastery, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderance, preponderate, prevalence, seniority, superiority, supremacy, surpass, top, transcend, transcendence), سما (soar), علا (overlie, pick up, surmount), صرح (avow, castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, palace, predicate, proclaim, profess, represent, say, state), إرتفع (advance, arise, ascend, aspire, climb, come in, flow, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, uplift), برج (castle, constellation, pinnacle, sign, spire, turret). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стоя по-високо, кула (control tower), крепост (bastille, bulwark, fastness, fortress), опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, underpinning), мачта (mast, pole, stick), защита (advocacy, answer, apology, bulwark, championship, counsel for the defense, defence, defense, palladium, plea, pleading, protection, rampart, safeguard, security, shield, vindication), пилон (mast, pier, pile, pylon), издигам се (advance, arise, arose, ascend, aspire, flow, go up, jump, loft, move up, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, uprise). (various references) | |
Chinese | 塔 (pagoda). (various references) | |
Czech | vypínat se (go off, perk), vìž (Castle, pinnacle, stereo), věž, ènít. (various references) | |
Danish | tårn (castle, rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Dutch | toren (rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Esperanto | turo (castle). (various references) | |
Faeroese | torn (rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Farsi | قلعه(مثل برج)بلندبودن , برج (Constellation, House, Month, Pinnacle, Pylon, Steeple). (various references) | |
Finnish | torni (rook, spire, steeple, turret). (various references) | |
French | tour (tour), pylône (transmission tower, transmission-line tower). (various references) | |
German | Turm (Castle, rook, spire, steeple). (various references) | |
Greek | πύργος (rook). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kullë (rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגדל (cupboard, pulpit, turret), להתרומם (heave, rear, rise), להתנשא (be arrogant, boast, heave, look down on, look down one's nose, rise), צריח (turret). (various references) | |
Hungarian | torony (mast), bástya (bastion, bulwark, Castle, house, round house). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menara. (various references) | |
Irish | túr. (various references) | |
Italian | torre (castle, rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 楼 (belvedere, lookout, turret), タレット旋盤 (personality, star, talent, tank, tank breathing, tank lorry, tank top, tanker, tongue, turret lathe), 塔 (pagoda). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ろう (age, belvedere, bend over, comforting, labor, lookout, old age, old people, puttingto work, striving, thanking, the aged, the old, toil, trouble, turret, wax), タワー , とう (and the like, be frozen over, building, cane, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, pagoda, party, place, rattan, saber, section, servant, sickle, steal, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, without regard to). (various references) | |
Korean | 탑 (Towers). (various references) | |
Lombard | torr (rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Malagasy | siniben-drano. (various references) | |
Manx | toor, peeley (fort, pale, pile). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tårn (rook, steeple). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torre (castle, gantry, gauntry, rook, turret). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | torre. (various references) | |
Romanian | turn (Castle, rook, spire, steeple, turret). (various references) | |
Russian | башня (belfry, castle, turret). (various references) | |
Scottish | baideal. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | toranj (steeple, turret), top (cannon, gun, piece, rook), kula (turret), dizati se uvis. (various references) | |
Spanish | torre (Castle, rook, steeple, turret). (various references) | |
Swedish | torn (Castle, rook, steeple, thorn). (various references) | |
Thai | หอคอยงาช้าง (สถานที่สมมุติใช้กับทางการศึกษา) (ivory tower). (various references) | |
Turkish | burç (bastion, Bush, constellation, dungeon, horoscope, rook, sign, sign of the zodiac, steeple). (various references) | |
Turkmen | wyюka (r) (turret). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цитадель (citadel, stronghold), тягтися (crawl, drag, plod, trail), вежа (belfry), височіти (domineer, overpeer, predominate), опора (anchorage, anchorage-ground, backing, bearer, buttress, cradle, crutch, footing, holdfast, pillar, reliance, stay, steady, stilt, stock, support), здійматися (billow, crest, heave, rise, rise above, swell, wallow). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tháp đồn luỹ, pháo đài là người có đủ sức để bảo vệ cho ai. (various references) | |
Welsh | tw+r, tŵr (castle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | an-za-kar. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | propugnaculum, turre, turrem, turres, turribus, turris, turrium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TiV gar ex umwn qelwn purgon oikodomhsai ouci prwton kaqisaV yhfizei thn dapanhn ei ecei ta proV apartismon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quis enim ex vobis volens turrem aedificare non prius sedens conputat sumptus qui necessarii sunt si habet ad perficiendum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hwylc eower wyle timbrian anne stypel. hu ne sytt he æryst and teleð þa andfengas þe him behefe synt: hwæðer he hæbbe hine to fullfremmenne |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For who of you willynge to bilde a toure, whether he `first sitte not, and countith the spensis that ben nedeful, if he haue to perfourme? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which of you disposed to bilde a toure sytteth not doune before and counteth ye cost whether he have sufficient to performe it? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Kay kinsa ba kaninyo, nga sa magatinguha siya sa pagtukod ug torre, dili una molingkod sa pagkuwenta sa galastohan, kon aduna ba siyay igong ikapahuman niini? |
| Croatian | "Tko od vas, nakan graditi kulu, neæe prije sjesti i proraèunati troškove ima li èime dovršiti: |
| Danish | Thi hvem iblandt eder, som vil bygge et Tårn, sætter sig ikke først hen og beregner Omkostningen, om han har nok til at fuldføre det, |
| Dutch | Want wie van u, willende een toren bouwen, zit niet eerst neder, en overrekent de kosten, of hij ook heeft, hetgeen tot volmaking nodig is? |
| Finnish | Sillä jos joku teistä tahtoo rakentaa tornin, eikö hän ensin istu laskemaan kustannuksia, nähdäkseen, onko hänellä varoja rakentaa se valmiiksi, |
| French | Car, lequel de vous, s`il veut bâtir une tour, ne s`assied d`abord pour calculer la dépense et voir s`il a de quoi la terminer, |
| German | Wer ist aber unter euch, der einen Turm bauen will, und sitzt nicht zuvor und überschlägt die Kosten, ob er's habe, hinauszuführen? |
| Haitian Creole | Si yonn nan nou vle fè yon gwo batisman, premye bagay pou l' fè: se pou l' chita pou l' kalkile konbe sa pral koute l' pou l' wè si li gen kont lajan pou l' fin fè travay la. |
| Hungarian | Mert ha közületek valaki tornyot akar építeni, nemde elõször leülvén felszámítja a költséget, ha van-é mivel elvégezze? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau seorang dari kalian mau membangun sebuah menara, tentu ia akan duduk menghitung dahulu biayanya supaya ia tahu apakah uangnya cukup untuk menyelesaikan menara itu atau tidak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena siapakah di antara kamu, yang hendak membangunkan sebuah menara, tiada duduk dahulu menganggarkan belanjanya, kalau-kalau cukup akan melengkapkannya? |
| Italian | Chi di voi, volendo costruire una torre, non si siede prima a calcolarne la spesa, se ha i mezzi per portarla a compimento? |
| Latvian | Jo kas no jums, gribçdams torni celt, vispirms neapsçdîsies un neaprçíinâs izdevumus, kas nepiecieðami tâ nobeigðanai, |
| Manx Gaelic | Quoi jiuish ta kiarail toor y hroggal, nagh vel soie sheese hoshiaght, as coontey yn cost, vel wheesh echey as ver mullagh er? |
| Maori | Ko wai hoki o koutou, ki te mea ia ki te hanga taumaihi, e kore e matua noho ki te tatau i nga utu, mehemea e ranea ana ana mea hei whakaoti? |
| Norwegian | For hvem av eder som vil bygge et tårn, setter sig ikke først ned og regner efter hvad det vil koste, om han har nok til å fullføre det med, |
| Rumanian | Cqci, cine dintre voi, dacq vrea sq zideascq un turn, nu stq mai kntki sq-wi facq socoteala cheltuielilor, ca sq vadq dacq are cu ce sq -l sfkrweascq? |
| Shuar | `Jea Yakí jeamtaj tusam wakerakmeka, Kuítian urutmak ajapawaintiaj tusam tura urutmajain~ki amukaintiaj tusam emka Enentáimsashtatmek. |
| Spanish | Porque ¿cuál de vosotros, queriendo edificar una torre, no se sienta primero y calcula los gastos, a ver si tiene lo que necesita para acabarla? |
| Swahili | Kwa maana, ni nani miongoni mwenu ambaye akitaka kujenga mnara hataketi kwanza akadirie gharama zake ili ajue kama ana kiasi cha kutosha cha kumalizia? |
| Swedish | Ty om någon bland eder vill bygga ett torn, sätter han sig icke då först ned och beräknar kostnaden och mer till, om han äger vad som behöves för att bygga det färdigt? |
| Uma | "Ane ria to doko' mpowangu tomi bohe, napohura-ki ulu mporeke ongkoso' pompowangu-na, ba hono' mpai' doi-na ba uma-di. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tower": towered, towerier, toweriest, towering, toweringly, towerlike, towers, towery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tower": kotower, kowtower, outtower, watchtower. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tower": kotowers, kowtowers, multitowered, outtowered, outtowering, outtowers, watchtowers. (additional references) | |
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"Tower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eower, fower, jower, stower, Tawera, Tawere, tawter, tewe, Tober, toder, toer, tojer, Toker, toler, tomer, tomwe, Toomer, torer, tover, towar, Towe, towem, towen, towic, towir, towit, towler, towre, Towry, towse, Towser, towte, Tozeur, trower, ttwa, tuyer, twar, t'war, twer, twere, t'were, twern, twert, twoa, twoe, twoer, twr, wower. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tower" (pronounced tou"er) |
| 2 | -ou" er | empower, Bower, cower, devour, dour, flour, flower, glower, hour, our, overpower, power, scour, shower, sour, superpower. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wrote. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: rote, tore, trow, wert, wore, wort. | |
-2 letters: ore, ort, owe, ret, roe, rot, row, tew, toe, tor, tow, two, wet, woe, wot. | |
-3 letters: er, et, oe, or, ow, re, to, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: powter, towers, towery, trowed, trowel, twofer, worset. | |
+2 letters: bestrow, cowrite, cowrote, crownet, felwort, forwent, kotower, network, outdrew, outgrew, outwear, outwore, overwet, powters, prowest, rewrote, strowed, swotter, thrower, towered, towrope, trowels, twofers, whereto, whortle, worsets, worsted, worthed. | |
+3 letters: bellwort, bestrown, bestrows, browbeat, brownest, colewort, cowrites, crowfeet, crownets, crowstep, damewort, danewort, felworts, fleawort, floweret, footwear, forewent, fretwork, frowsted, honewort, howitzer, interrow, kotowers, kowtower, leadwort, miswrote, networks, outpower, outrowed, outsware, outswear, outswore, outthrew, outtower, outwears, outweary, outwrite, outwrote, overwets, pilewort, regrowth, routeway, rowdiest, seatwork, skywrote, software, swotters, tapeworm, teamwork, teardown, throwers, timework, timeworn, towerier, towering, townwear, towropes, troweled, troweler, trowsers, tubework, undertow, uptowner, wantoner, waterdog, waterlog, waterloo, wetproof, whortles, wordiest, workmate, wormiest, worrited, worsteds, worthier, worthies, writeoff, wrongest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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