Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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| Käännös | Konteksti |
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| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | rakennus, kuvaannollinen, arkkitehtuuri |
| 2. | | |
| 3. | | vanhahtava |
| Verbit |
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| Muut/tuntemattomat |
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires.
- One who tows.
- (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
- (informal) An interlocking tower.
- (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
- (historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
- (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To be very tall.
- (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
- (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
Esimerkit
- From the top of the tower we could see far off into the distance.
- Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
- Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
- The office block towered into the sky.
- My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
- But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[...]
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