tower

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈtaʊɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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[…]
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.; A control tower.
  6. 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
  7. An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide. figuratively
  8. A strong refuge; a defence. figuratively
    — Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  9. 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.
  10. The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
  11. The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
  12. A group of giraffes. collective
  13. A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
  14. A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne. historical
    — Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
  15. High flight; elevation. obsolete
    — Nigh in her sight The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour, Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.
动词 v.
  1. To be very tall. intransitive
    — The office block towered into the sky.
  2. To be high or lofty; to soar. intransitive
    — My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
  3. To soar into. obsolete,transitive
    — Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky

词形变化

towers plural towre alternative towers present,singular,third-person towering participle,present towered participle,past towered past towre alternative towers plural towre alternative

词汇关系

近义词
donjon
衍生词
airport tower antenna tower apartment tower ATC tower beacon tower bell tower belltower bridge tower bubble tower buttress tower cat tower cell tower cell phone tower cell base tower chain tower Charters Towers church tower clock tower clocktower coaling tower conning tower control tower cooling tower crossing tower Devil's Tower Devils Tower dice tower drill tower drop tower drum tower Eiffel Tower erection tower fire lookout tower fire tower fire tower stairway flanking tower flare tower folly tower gate-tower Gay-Lussac tower Glover tower Glover's tower goat tower guardtower, guard tower hose tower hot tower interlocking tower ivory tower ivory-tower lantern tower Leaning Tower lift tower light tower lookout tower Maiden Tower Maiden's tower Martello tower megatower mini tower minitower monotower moon tower moonlight tower mooring tower multitower mural tower needle tower N-tower observation tower office tower PC tower peek tower pencil tower Pictish tower plate tower power tower prayer tower prilling tower radio tower rood tower round tower scaffolding tower shot tower siege tower signal tower smoke tower solar tower spray tower stair tower stairtower stealth tower summer-tower supertower switch tower telecommunications tower television tower Texas tower Tokyo Tower tower bastion tower block tower bolt tower case tower clock tower crane tower cress tower defence tower defense Tower Hamlets Towerhead Tower Hill tower house tower ladder towerless towerlet towerlike towerman tower mill tower-mill tower mustard tower of Babel Tower of London tower of silence tower of strength tower owl towerscape tower shield tower skull towers of Hanoi tower telescope tower wagon towerwise towerwork towery transmission tower wakeboard tower wall tower wall-tower watchtower watch-tower watch tower water tower winding tower wind tower outtower overtower towerer tower over uptower
相关词
mast

词源

词源 1
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). Displaced native Middle English stepel for the general sense of "tower".
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.
词源 2
From Middle English touren, torren, torrien, from Old English *torrian, from the noun (see above).
词源 3
Etymology tree
English tow
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English tower
From tow + -er.
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