tower

1. 1

   A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

   • an observation tower, an isolated watch tower, a church tower, conning tower
2. 2

   A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.; A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed.

   • signal tower, radio tower, cell tower
3. 3

   A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.; A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top.

   • observation tower, watch tower
4. 4

   A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.; A control tower.

5. 5

   A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.; A skyscraper.

   • The Sears Tower
6. 6

   An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.figuratively

7. 7

   A strong refuge; a defence.figuratively

   • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
   • A group of giraffes is called a tower.
8. 8

   Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.

   • Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services.
9. 9

   The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

10. 10

    The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

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1. 1

   To be very tall; to reach a high height.intransitive

   • The office block towered into the sky.
   • The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.
2. 2

   To be high or lofty; to soar.intransitive

   • My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
   • When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
3. 3

   To soar into.obsoletetransitive

   • Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky

1. 1

   One who tows.

   • But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]