Towername

• 1

  The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.

  • Traitors should be sent to the Tower!
• 2

  A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.

• 3

  A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Towernoun

• 1

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

towernoun詞源 1/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

• 1

  A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

  • an observation tower, an isolated watch tower, a church tower, conning tower
  • The valley is closed in at the lower end by the village, the church tower and a few roofs being visible through the trees; […]
• 2

  A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

  • signal tower, radio tower, cell tower
• 3

  A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

  • observation tower, watch tower
• 4

  A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

• 5

  A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

  • The Sears Tower
  • He'd taken her to see […] The Towering Inferno […] She imagined the screen itself must be hot as the burning San Francisco tower. […] She expected the screen to go up in a sheath of flame as the Glass Tower had, expected sparks to leap from the aluminum into the surrounding hayfields, […]
• 6

  An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.

• 7

  A strong refuge; a defence.

  • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  • A group of giraffes is called a tower.
• 8

  businessEach 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.
  • 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.

towerverb詞源 2

• 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.
  • When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
• 3

  obsoleteTo soar into.

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

towernoun詞源 3/ˈtəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

• 1

  One who tows.

  • 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[…]