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Definition of Tower

Tower A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. High flight; elevation. To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. To soar into. Related Definitions: About, Alone, Also, Always, And, Any, Appended, As, Be, Belfry, Building, But, Century, Church, Citadel, Curtain, Defense, Diameter, Edifice, Either, Elevation, End, Fashionable, Flanker, Flight, For, Form, Fortification, Fortress, From, Great, Headdress, Height, Hence, High, In, Insulated, Into, Line, Lofty, Mass, Not, Of, Or, Other, Overtop, Projection, Proportion, Purpose, Rest, Rise, Same, Seventeenth, Size, Soar, Special, Standing, Structure, Than, That, The, Then, To, Tower, Until, Very, Wall, When, Width

Tower Quotations Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. Franz Kafka A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. Anthony Holden Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. Karl Philipp Moritz The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness. John Cusack

Tower Translations tower in Afrikaans is toring tower in Dutch is toren tower in Finnish is torni tower in French is tour tower in German is Turm tower in Italian is torre tower in Portuguese is torre tower in Spanish is torre tower in Swedish is torn

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