steel engraving | the act of engraving on a steel plate |
bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
church tower | the tower of a church |
clock tower | a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face |
CN Tower | a tower in Toronto, feet tall for broadcasting widely |
conning tower | a raised bridge on a submarine, often used for entering and exiting |
conning tower | an armored pilothouse on a warship |
control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
cooling tower | a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant |
Eiffel Tower | a wrought iron tower meters high that was constructed in Paris in , for many years it was the tallest man-made structure |
fire tower | a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires |
Hawaiian guitar steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
highise tower block | tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments, `tower block' is the British term for `highise' |
Leaning Tower Leaning Tower of Pisa | a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular, construction was begun in |
lookout observation tower lookout station observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
martello tower | a circular masonry fort for coastal defence |
mooring tower mooring mast | a tower for mooring airships |
Petronas Towers | twin skyscrapers built in Kuala Lumpur in , feet high |
Sears Tower | a skyscraper built in Chicago in , feet tall |
shot tower | tower of a kind once used to make shot, molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water |
signal box signal tower | a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains |
steel | knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod |
steel arch bridge | a steel bridge constructed in the form of an arch |
steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
steel engraving | engraving on a steel plate |
steel engraving | an impression taken from an engraved steel plate |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
steel plate | a plate of steel |
steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
supporting tower | a tower that serves to support something |
sword blade brand steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
tower | a structure taller than its diameter, can stand alone or be attached to a larger building |
Tower of Babel Babel | (Genesis :-) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven, God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another |
Tower of London | a fortress in London on the Thames, used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels |
Tower of Pharos | a great lighthouse ( feet high) built at Alexandria in BC |
tugboat tug towboat tower | a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships |
water tower | a large reservoir for water |
World Trade Center WTC twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
steel blue | a greyish blue color |
tubular cavity | a cavity having the shape of a tube |
steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
ivory tower | a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place, he lived in the ivory tower of speculation, they viewed universities as ivory towers |
steel company | a company that makes and sells steel |
steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
tower of strength pillar of strength | a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort |
tower cress tower mustard Arabis turrita | European cress having stiff erect stems, sometimes placed in genus Turritis |
tower mustard tower cress Turritis glabra Arabis glabra | or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe |
steel production | making steel from pig iron |