What's the difference between belfry and tower?

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.

Tower


Definition:

  • (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
  • (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
  • (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
  • (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
  • (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
  • (n.) High flight; elevation.
  • (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
  • (v. t.) To soar into.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) Alton Towers has a long record of safe operation and as we reopen, we are committed to ensuring that the public can again visit us with confidence.” A spokesman for the park said that said that X-Sector, the high-octane section of that park where the Smiler is based, would remain closed until further notice.
  • (3) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.
  • (4) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An aerial view of the stricken Dharahara tower in Kathmandu.
  • (6) The question, then, is how she was able to secure the meeting at Trump Tower during a presidential campaign and why she was introduced to Trump Jr as representing the Russian government.
  • (7) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
  • (8) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
  • (9) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
  • (10) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
  • (11) Another candidate is a 166m cylindrical tower that was constructed in the 1970s in Zamalek, Cairo’s elite island, but has remained empty since.
  • (12) Here, we give our verdict on 10 new towers, built and imminent, counting down to the very worst offender … 10.
  • (13) The government will keep a “close eye” on Kensington and Chelsea council, Sajid Javid has said, as pressure mounts for the local authority to be taken over by commissioners following its much-criticised conduct in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
  • (14) The world's tallest broadcasting tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, has opened to the public.
  • (15) Four floors in a twenty-story tower are devoted to library services, and each floor is described.
  • (16) Michael Rouse, 54, from Penge, south-east London, who was visiting his father at the Tower Bridge care centre in Bermondsey, said he had not been told anything about the company's difficulties.
  • (17) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
  • (18) There are also what Peter Rees, who spent 29 years as the City of London Corporation’s chief planning officer, calls “safety-deposit boxes in the sky” – towers of flats whose main purpose is not to make homes or communities, but units of investment.
  • (19) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
  • (20) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).

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