different between tower vs toter
tower
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)
- A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
- A water tower.
- A control tower.
- Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
- The Sears Tower
- (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
- (informal) An interlocking tower.
- (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
- Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
- (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.
- (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To be very tall.
- (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
- (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)
- 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 […]
- 1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar
Anagrams
- towre, twoer, wrote
Afrikaans
Verb
tower (present tower, present participle towerende, past participle getower)
- Alternative form of toor.
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toter
English
Etymology
tote +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??t?(?)
Noun
toter (plural toters)
- One who totes or carries something.
- 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub
- His name was Vadian, and a cunning toter
- 2004, Steve Ward, Holy Enigma! (page 31)
- Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.
- 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub
Translations
See also
- stone-toter
Anagrams
- Otter, Treto, ortet, otter, toret, torte
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
toter
- inflection of tot:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural
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