tower

noun14

1. •
   a building, or a part of a building, that is much higher than it is wide

   • The valley is closed in at the lower end by the village, the church tower and a few roofs being visible through the trees; […] — 1878
2. •
   A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top.
3. •
   A control tower.
4. •
   A skyscraper.
5. •
   A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed.
6. •
   (figurative) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
7. •
   (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.

   • Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs. — 1662
8. •
   (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.

   • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. — 1611
9. •
   The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
10. •
    The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
11. •
    Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.

    • Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services. — 2013
12. •
    A group of giraffes.

    • Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites — 2026
13. •
    A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
14. •
    (no longer used) High flight; elevation.

    • Nigh in her sight The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour, Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove. — 1667

verb3

1. •
   To be very tall; to reach a high height.

   • The office block towered into the sky.
   • The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.
2. •
   To be high or lofty; to soar.

   • My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. — 1591
3. •
   (no longer used) To soar into.

   • Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky — 1667

noun1

1. •
   One who tows.

noun[before a noun]1

1. •
   Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.