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 |
column pillar a | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
column pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) |
column chromatography column | a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography, a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands |
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 |
highise tower block | tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments, `tower block' is the British term for `highise' |
lally lally column | support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete |
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 |
support column | a column that supports a heavy weight |
supporting tower | a tower that serves to support something |
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 , |
column | any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body |
spinal column vertebral column spine backbone back rachis | the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord, the fall broke his back |
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 |
column | a page or text that is vertically divided, the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject, the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns |
column editorial newspaper column | an article giving opinions or perspectives |
agony column | a newspaper column devoted to personal problems |
fifth column Trojan horse | a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage, an enemy in your midst |
column | a line of units following one after another |
column | a vertical array of numbers or other information, he added a column of numbers |
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 |
column chromatography | chromatography that uses selective adsorption by a column of powders |
destructive distillation | heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products |
distillation distillment | the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors |
fractional distillation | fractionation of a liquid by distillation |
column inch inch | a unit of measurement for advertising space |
column tower pillar | anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower, the test tube held a column of white powder, a tower of dust rose above the horizon, a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite |