What's the difference between belfry and campanile?
Belfry
Definition:
(n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
(n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
(n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
(n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of a sudden from the belfry in the square there broke out again a wild midnight peal of bells.
(2) and Corvus frugilegus L. in the belfries and lofts of churches.
(3) 8 Seve Ballesteros at the Belfry 10th The Brabazon course opened at the Belfry in 1978 with Britain v Europe in the Hennessy Cup.
(4) He got it by keeping watch for three nights, knee-deep in pigeon droppings, in the belfry of an abandoned church in the nearby town of Hachita.
(5) Most amazingly of all, the flotilla will be led by a floating belfry of eight bells, the largest of which, named for Queen Elizabeth, will weigh half a tonne.
(6) The most striking historic building is the Belfry .
(7) The tower of the cathedral is to the right and the belfry of the church of Santa Cruz to the left.
(8) It's worth noting which belfry is closest to your villa, as these tend to be the highest points and in the labyrinth of unnamed, whitewashed, terracotta-roofed houses, it's easy to get lost - I finished up being ferried around by quasi-bilingual locals until a taxi driver recognised the name of my numberless villa (in my unnamed, whitewashed back street).
(9) Tomorrow I'm going to pop out and buy Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior , which has had lukewarm reviews but which also, crucially, has the word "sniper" in its title and is therefore an essential purchase for anyone who, like me, is prepared to spend up to £39.99 pretending to lurk up an abandoned belfry training a set of crosshairs on absolutely everyone who walks by.
(10) As usual, he says the dynamic geometries are generated by the context: the building acts as “a vortex that connects the outside elements,” drawing connections with the future station and pointing its sharp prow in line with the belfry, as “a hinge between the old city and the new”.
(11) They vibrated, as they had done for countless quiet years, from the tall belfry in the cobbled market place, and all the houses listened beneath their mantles of white.
Campanile
Definition:
(n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not to rebuild the minaret would be as unthinkable as to not to have rebuilt St Mark’s campanile in Venice after its collapse in 1902.
(2) On a clear day, you can see as far as the Campanile of San Marco in Venice.
(3) This piece, our mural at the bus terminal and Mkhonto Gawzela ’s frieze at the Campanile memorial, compels you to connect with the less sanitised areas of the city.