Definition of "tower"

tower¹

/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

noun
plural towers
1. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
2. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
3. A water tower.
4. A control tower.
5. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
6. (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
7. (informal) An interlocking tower.
8. (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
  Quotations
  Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 61:3
9. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
  Quotations
  Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
  1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905
10. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
  Quotations
  Nigh in her sightThe Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour, Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.
  1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
11. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
12. (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
13. (collective) A group of giraffes

tower²

verb
third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered
1. (intransitive) To be very tall.
  Quotations
  Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers.
  2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
2. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
  Quotations
  My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
  When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could seeNo cliff beyond him in the sky,His pinions were bent droopingly —And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
  1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
  As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
  1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14
  To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.
  1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
3. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
  Quotations
  Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky
  1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

tower³

/ˈtəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

noun
plural towers
1. One who tows.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar

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