How to pronounce “tower”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
• A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
• A water tower.
• A control tower.
• Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
• (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
• (informal) Ellipsis of interlocking tower.
• (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
• (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
• (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
• The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
• (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
• (collective) A group of giraffes.
• (business) Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
• (glassblowing) A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To be very tall.
• (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
• (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.

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