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tower English

Meaning tower meaning

What does tower mean?
Definitions in simple English

tower Noun

— A tower is a tall building or structure.

tower Verb

— To tower is to be much taller than something. The basketball players towered over their fans.

tower

— noun a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building — verb (= loom, predominate) appear very large or occupy a commanding position The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall — noun (= column, pillar) anything that approximates 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 — noun (= tugboat) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

Synonyms tower synonyms

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tower English » English

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Topics tower topics

What do people use tower to talk about?
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Parts of a building
States Big Long

Tall
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water

Conjugation tower conjugation

How do you conjugate tower?

tower · verb

Examples tower examples

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Simple sentences

The queen was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
The tower collapsed.
Do you know how high the television tower is?
The palace has a tall tower.
Look at that tower standing on the hill.
I made out a tower in the distance.
Did you visit the Tower of London?
It was suggested that the tower be restored.
Many years have been spent in building the tower.
The tower stood amid the ruins.
The tower is going to collapse.
The tower rose up against the blue sky.
The clock in the church tower struck nine.
We saw the tower in the distance.
Turning to the right, you will see a white tower.
The tower leaned slightly to the left.
The tower can be seen from here.
The height of the tower is above 100 meters.

Movie subtitles

There were, of course, some imposing sights on the banks of the Thames, notably a large gaol, the Tower of London.
The Tower of London was a pretty primitive edifice compared with the splendours of the great towers of imperial China.
No, like, they-they dance together at a ball. Or they kiss in a tower. They sail on a magic carpet through the sky.
The CN Tower.
You never mentioned a radio tower!
Listen up: according to Bishop, the Senator's transmitter signal is coming from the complex, probably the main tower.
Fall back to the tower!
The jewels are in the tower, in the bell.
Their leaders were bold and fearless men. They were arrested and sent to the tower.
Gol, Radiant Energy Tower Guardian.
One evening, Paris went to sleep and the following morning the night watchman in the Eiffel Tower wonders why not a thing is stirring in the city and since no one comes.
Dr Waldman's been murdered in the tower.
I'll take you to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
They mass for attack on the west tower.
Take me to my tower.
I can still beat you to the Monk's Tower.
Tower guard, shot.
You'll not only see those, but before the evening's through, you'll be leaning against the Tower of Pisa, mount Mount Everest.
Yes, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, oh, and most of all, Notre Dame.
And who cares how high the Eiffel Tower is?
I got the whole thing over the wire from the switch tower operator. - On the siding across from the pen.
The hands of the church tower clock slowly move further along.
I don't think you know Dr. Watson, do you? Watson, this is Sir Ronald Ramsgate, Constable of the Tower of London where all he has to do is to keep his eyes on the Crown Jewels.
Could you possibly be at the tower tomorrow night at ten?
Or they kiss in a tower.
It's the name of a tower built in Babylon.
The most famous was the Tower of Babel.
Inside the tower.
And God's wrath descended on the Tower of Babel.
He's not a bell tower.
Take this elevator to the 25th floor then take the special tower elevator.
I beg pardon, which is the tower elevator?
Have any of you seen this account of the man. who jumped off the Eiffel Tower last night and picked himself up unhurt?
I'll show you the Tower of London, where the little princes were. and London Bridge.
No, I am looking for the Eiffel Tower.
I'm interested in the Eiffel Tower from a technical standpoint.

News and current affairs

The problem is not that cap and trade is an ivory-tower theory that cannot work in the real world; on the contrary, its performance surpassed expectations.
The Eiffel Tower imbued the evening with its magic.
In such a Tower of Babel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's call for a political union to save the euro is wishful thinking, even for the staunchest European official.
They could be co-located in a regulatory Tower of Babel in Basel.
PRAGUE - A dominant feature of Prague is the Gothic tower of the Cathedral of St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert.
That tower is now wrapped in scaffolding because - for the first time ever and, so to speak, at the eleventh hour - it is being renovated.
Temporarily, the scaffold conceals the tower's beauty.
But if economists were confined to the ivory tower, we might be unbiased, but we would also be ignorant of practicalities - and thus even less capable of predicting problems.
He was executed in the Tower of London, martyred because of his conscience.
The Old Testament tells how work on the tower in Shinar, in ancient Babylon, was disrupted because man aspired to reach the heavens and divinity.
With the tottering tower of communist totalitarianism collapsed, the Iron Curtain's fall revealed the actual contours of the world as well as the depth of its challenge.

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