tower

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , "tower; rock"; > English and , , ; both from ,  ,.

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Noun



 * 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)  An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
 * 7)  A strong refuge; a defence.
 * 8)  A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
 * 9)  High flight; elevation.
 * 10) The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
 * 11)  The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
 * 12)  A group of giraffes
 * 13)  Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
 * 14) * 2023, Cybellium Ltd, Mastering ISO-IEC 20000-1 (page 108)
 * Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers.
 * 1)  A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
 * 1)  A group of giraffes
 * 2)  Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
 * 3) * 2023, Cybellium Ltd, Mastering ISO-IEC 20000-1 (page 108)
 * Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers.
 * 1)  A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
 * 1)  A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.

Translations

 * Adyghe: щэчанэ
 * Afrikaans: toring
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ግንብ
 * Arabic: بُرْج
 * Egyptian Arabic: برج
 * Hijazi Arabic: بُرْج
 * Iraqi Arabic: برج
 * Aragonese: torraza, torre
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: দুর্গ, মিনাৰ
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: си
 * Azerbaijani:, , bürc, vışka
 * Bashkir: манара, башня
 * Basque: dorre
 * Belarusian: ве́жа, вы́шка, це́рам
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: бӏов
 * Cherokee: ᎡᏆ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 塔
 * Dungan: та
 * Eastern Min: 塔
 * Hakka: 塔
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Northern Min: 塔
 * Wu: 塔
 * Classical Syriac: ܡܓܕܠܐ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: кевмар, палманькудо, сярдак
 * Esperanto: turo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: torn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: tour
 * Old French: tor
 * Galician:, crochel, caramanchel
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Durm
 * Bavarian: Tuam
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πύργος
 * Gujarati: બુરજ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Torrem
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: ulọ aja, ugẹle
 * Ilocano: torre
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: túr
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kalmyk: цамхаг
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: мұнара
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຫໍ, ຫໍຄອຢ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tornis
 * Limburgish: toeare
 * Lithuanian: bokštas
 * Lombard: tór
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Toorn
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: кула
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: borġ, torri
 * Manchu:
 * Maori: pourewa, pūhara, pūwhara
 * Marathi: मनोरा
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: башне
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Moore: gãosgo
 * Nahuatl: tlapilkoyan
 * Nepali: स्तम्भ, टावर
 * Northern Sami: toardna
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: сꙑнъ, стлъпъ, трѣмъ
 * Glagolitic: ⱄⱏⰺⱀⱏ, ⱄⱅⰾⱏⱂⱏ, ⱅⱃⱑⰿⱏ
 * Old East Slavic: вѣжа, нꙑръ
 * Old English: stīepel
 * Old Occitan: torre
 * Old Portuguese: torre
 * Ossetian: мӕсыг, гӕнах
 * Ottoman Turkish: قله, برج
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਟਾਵਰ, ਬੁਰਜ
 * Quechua: turri
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tur
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Samoan: olo
 * Samogitian: buokšts
 * Scots: tour
 * Scottish Gaelic: tùr
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то́рањ
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: turri
 * Sinhalese: කුළුණ
 * Situ:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: torm
 * Upper Sorbian: bašta, wěža
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mnara
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tore
 * Tajik:, манора
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཁང་ཀྲོང, ཁང་པ་མཐོ་པོ་ཀྲོང་ཀྲོང
 * Tigrinya: ጸብለለ, ግምቢ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: minara, wyşka
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎂𐎄𐎍
 * Ukrainian:, , , те́рем
 * Urdu: ٹاور, برج, مینار
 * Uyghur: مۇنار
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: toer
 * Western Panjabi: برج, مینار
 * Yiddish: טורעם
 * Zhuang: dap


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots: tour
 * Scottish Gaelic: tùr
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: la torre, casa de déu
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French: la maison dieu
 * German: der Turm
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: la torre, il fulmine
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:, wieża boga
 * Portuguese:, casa de Deus, Casa de Deus
 * Scots: tour
 * Spanish:


 * Breton: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Latin:
 * Maltese:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from the noun (see above).

Verb

 * 1)  To be very tall.
 * 2)  To be high or lofty; to soar.
 * 3)  To soar into.
 * 1)  To be high or lofty; to soar.
 * 2)  To soar into.
 * 1)  To soar into.
 * 1)  To soar into.
 * 1)  To soar into.
 * 1)  To soar into.

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) One who tows.