What's the difference between belfry and steeple?

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.

Steeple


Definition:

  • (n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient was a 11-year-old boy with steeple-head and mild mental retardation.
  • (2) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
  • (3) JJ Route 100, Vermont All your picture-postcard impressions of rural New England – village greens, white-steepled wooden church spires and roadside diners – can be enjoyed along Vermont's Route 100, which runs the length of the Green Mountains.
  • (4) Steeples and Towersey, both from England, are working full-time on Star Wars: Episode VII at Pinewood studios, where the snap was taken.
  • (5) "It all started when Kathleen Kennedy toured the R2-D2 Builders area at Celebration Europe this past summer in Germany," Steeples told the official Star Wars blog.
  • (6) After that, stare through your TV and into the future, and see your local owner salivating at the chance to further gut the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association – finger-steepling and eager to engineer another lockout or force a strike and hope that dog-whistling about “working for the good of the game” will motivate anti-blinged-out-player resentment lingering in every team fanbase.
  • (7) Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford's Bodleian library Read more The musical angel was once part of a cope – a ceremonial priestly cloak – which became an altar cloth for the small parish church of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.
  • (8) From here you can travel between steepled villages on easy footpaths, indulging in the odd lake crossing.
  • (9) Such was the dominance of the 17-year-old that she even survived the presence of the prime minister, David Cameron, whose attendance in the steepling stands became something of a bad omen during the Olympics.
  • (10) For us, a winter’s day may not have the exhilaration of the skylark’s steepling song flight, but we still thrill to vignettes from this glorious show-off.
  • (11) Not that it did much good – the lead was doubled a few minutes later when Stephen Gleeson sliced a cross and Grant circled under it like a dizzy cricket fielder attempting a steepling catch, the ball dropping over his head and into the net.
  • (12) Like the medieval skyline with its steeple, the London skyline with St Paul's perhaps revealed an acknowledgement that behind all the bustle of the city lies a great mystery of which we perceive only a little.
  • (13) The resort has a seafront church, Notre Dame des Dunes, with a witch’s-hat steeple and four surviving bornes de sauveté (medieval stone stacks which marked the limits of religious protection).
  • (14) There, despite the fact that minarets are within Swiss building regulations, the erection of minarets, a vital part of a mosque (much like a steeple is to a church), has been banned!
  • (15) Sedbergh , a near-medieval public school nestled among steepling fells in Cumbria, is a 6am-run-and-bracing-shower sort of institution.
  • (16) Church steeples, villages, parishes, whole départements flashed by, all peeping out from a vibrant golden-yellow blur of oilseed rape prairies.
  • (17) "How was that possible at a time when no one could get higher than a treetop or a steeple?
  • (18) Blood parameters were studied in two groups of horses in the "Velká Pardubická" steeple-chase in 1974, 1975 and 1976.
  • (19) n. is described from males, females, nymphs, and larvae from the steeple tower of St. Mary's Church, Karkow, Poland, where it feeds on domestic rock pigeons, Columba livia Gmelin.
  • (20) The simple fact that similar buildings such as steeples or Christian bell towers are not being equally constricted by the law shows blatant double standards.

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