TOWER | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Meaning of tower in English
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Examples of tower
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The towers are built and the trees are going in right now.
The sign district will allow various kinds of digital signs on the first 10 floors of the two towers.
They would then plug those into their own growing tower of blocks to create cannons and defenses.
The shape of the dish is the same, but the tower system changed.
Cell phone companies store records of customers' locations based on when the customers' phones connect to towers during calls.
Soak up the views from a boat, a cable car, a trailhead or a castle tower .
As you're in the air watching a movie or trying to sleep, men and women are hard at work in their towers.
Each tower feels like it has something to prove.
A relief worker goes into a devastated area where cell towers are wiped out and allows people to input messages into their phone.
These megastructures allow various builders to construct different buildings within the towers for different needs.
The tower's octagonal rooms have arched windows and sweeping views out to the sea.
It uses cell phone towers to triangulate an approximate location.
Inside the airy, 90,000-square-foot glass and steel structure is an entire infrastructure of an airport, minus only the planes, runways and control tower .
However, the captain later told the control tower that a button indicating a hijacking was in progress had been pushed accidentally.
The spire will be fully assembled in 2013 and the tower will top out at 1776 feet.
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Translations of tower
in Chinese (Traditional)
塔, 建築物的塔形部分, 塔樓，高樓…
in Chinese (Simplified)
塔, 建筑物的塔形部分, 塔楼，高楼…
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torre, torre [feminine, singular]…
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torre, torre [feminine]…
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kule, …-den çok daha uzun olmak…
tour [feminine], tour, dominer de toute sa hauteur…
ஒரு உயரமான, குறுகிய அமைப்பு, பெரும்பாலும் சதுர அல்லது வட்டமானது…
(भवन का या अकेला) टॉवर, स्तंभ, मीनार…
એક ઊંચું, સાંકડું માળખું, ઘણીવાર ચોરસ કે ગોળ…
torn, torna upp sig, höja sig över…
menara, mencuar tinggi melampaui…
tårn [neuter], tårn, rage over…
ตึกสูง, หอคอย, สูงขึ้นไป…
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