What's the difference between dungeon and tower?

Dungeon


Definition:

  • (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
  • (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
  • (2) Months later the company released its free-to-play smartphone version of much-loved strategy classic, Dungeon Keeper, but the game was full of aggressively pushed in-app purchases.
  • (3) First-hand thoughts When I included the new Dungeon Keeper in my best apps of January roundups for Android and for iOS , there were some cross comments, asking why The Guardian would promote this game at the expense of other, more deserving titles.
  • (4) These projects will see existing Merlin brands such as The Dungeons adapted for the local market, in partnership with China Media Capital (CMC), it added.
  • (5) There are quite a few good things about new Dungeon Keeper: its sense of humour has survived the remaking process, and it’s visually polished.
  • (6) In the dungeons of Gaddafi, Mubarak or Assad they were beaten and hung from the walls, and in some cases had their genitals cut with a scalpel.
  • (7) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
  • (8) Ideally, I'd like to work towards being on a yacht in the Caribbean with a dungeon in the hold.
  • (9) The key innovation is a new Villain role, which allows one player to take on the role of a Dungeon Master, arranging enemy traps and attacks.
  • (10) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
  • (11) The result is an evolution for the series that lets players escape the linear dungeon-to-dungeon progression of its predecessors.
  • (12) Fifa sponsors’ pretence to principles give Blatter platform to make a stand | Marina Hyde Read more “Like the dungeon in the Fifa HQ, Fifa has become a very secretive place.
  • (13) That’s the implication (and, in fact, the straight accusation) of many of the game’s critics: that EA has ruined Dungeon Keeper and, by extension, this awful free-to-play business model is ruining games and screwing gamers.
  • (14) What I encountered was part reliquary, part freak show – and an impressive work of experience design, as stage-managed as anything in the London Dungeon .
  • (15) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
  • (16) Merlin, which also owns Madame Tussauds and the London Dungeon, will spend £53m over three years on the Nagoya park, while local partner Kirkbi Invest will raise the rest.
  • (17) Negative reviews The original Dungeon Keeper was brilliant.
  • (18) Positive reviews suggest the balance is much better than for the ill-fated Dungeon Keeper , released earlier in the year.
  • (19) Reynolds did paint histories, such as his scene from Dante of Ugolino and his children being starved to death in a dungeon, but, more successfully, he painted portraits that aspire to the condition of history.
  • (20) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.

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).