different between sweater vs tower

English

Etymology

From Middle English swetere, equivalent to sweat +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sw?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sw?t?/, /-??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?swet?/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(r), -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: sweat?er

Noun

sweater (plural sweaters)

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
2. (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
3. One who sweats (produces sweat).
4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
   • 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3

     We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.

   Coordinate term: sweatee

   • 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)

     If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

7. (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
8. (Britain, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point.

Synonyms

• (for sense 1): sweatshirt
• (for sense 2): jumper, pullover, jersey, cardigan, wooly
• (for sense 3): perspirer
• (for sense 4): exploiter

Derived terms

• sweater dress

Descendants

Translations

Verb

sweater (third-person singular simple present sweaters, present participle sweatering, simple past and past participle sweatered)

1. (transitive) To dress in a sweater.

Further reading

• sweater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• wearest

English

Alternative forms

• towre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English t?r, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”).

Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh t?r. Doublet of tor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ta?.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ta??/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Noun

tower (plural towers)

1. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
2. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
3. A water tower.
4. A control tower.
5. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.

   The Sears Tower

6. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
7. (informal) An interlocking tower.
8. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.

   • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

9. (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.

10. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

11. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
12. (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

Synonyms

• donjon

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Tower
• ? Hindi: ???? (??var)
• ? Japanese: ??? (taw?)
• ? Korean: ?? (tawo)
• ? Northern Kurdish: tawer
• ? Punjabi: ???? (??var)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English touren, torren, torrien, from Old English *torrian, from the noun (see above).

Verb

tower (third-person singular simple present towers, present participle towering, simple past and past participle towered)

1. (intransitive) To be very tall.

2. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.

Derived terms

• tower over

See also

• The Tower (Tarot card) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mast

Etymology 3

From tow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.?(?)/

Noun

tower (plural towers)

1. One who tows.
   • 1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar

     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 […]

Anagrams

• towre, twoer, wrote

Afrikaans

Verb

tower (present tower, present participle towerende, past participle getower)

1. Alternative form of toor.