What's the difference between pagoda and tower?

Pagoda


Definition:

  • (n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
  • (n.) An idol.
  • (n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Atop the pagoda near Bagan, the political activist who is now in hiding said the military was wrong to believe it has cowed another generation.
  • (2) A rare case of congenital intestinal obstruction of hereditary nature, the so-called "pagoda" syndrome, is described.
  • (3) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
  • (4) I walked down into town from the pagoda and was enveloped in a happy crowd outside a monastery celebrating the full moon.
  • (5) Purified laminin as a substrate induces rapid outgrowth of Retzius (R) and Anterior Pagoda (AP) cells in culture.
  • (6) Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.
  • (7) Signals from T cells and anterior pagoda (AP) cells were weaker but could be detected with averaging.
  • (8) The mP cell synapses directly with many other cells in the leech ganglion, including the anterior pagoda (AP) cell, longitudinal (L) motoneurone and the annulus erector (AE) motoneurone, which were studied as a group of postsynaptic neurones.
  • (9) They include one of the most important, the Durbar Square in Kathmandu, which held pagodas and temples from the 15th to 18th centuries, she said.
  • (10) On Tuesday, prices ranged from $20 for a trinket to $60,000 for a five-tiered pagoda carved in ivory.
  • (11) Thus, Leydig cells cultured with Leydig cells established non-rectifying electrical connections, as did Retzius cells, longitudinal motoneurones (L cells) and anterior pagoda (AP) cells, each paired with its own cell type.
  • (12) With every new building bidding for the best view of the Shwedagon Pagoda, we’re not going to have any views left,” says Daw Moe Moe Lwin, director of the Yangon Heritage Trust (YHT), a campaign group founded in 2012 by architects and historians keen to save south-east Asia’s last surviving colonial core.
  • (13) Although Mobutu died, he left it for us.” This palace and two others in Gbadolite – one designed as a cluster of Chinese pagodas, the other for state business and now occupied by the military – are in terminal decline, but the town itself survives with a population of 159,000, a bustling marketplace and a sprinkling of bars and restaurants.
  • (14) In an early mission, Agent 47 is tasked with killing a nasty man who hangs out in a pagoda in a busy square.
  • (15) A mysterious green egg shape hangs from a pagoda–like object, next to which is a tiny hanging green fairy on the summit of an odd triangular gilt construction.
  • (16) There was the neon Twiglet of the Pearl Tower; the World Financial Center, at nearly 500m, looking like a giant bottle opener; and the staggeringly beautiful Jin Mao Tower, like a cut-glass pagoda.
  • (17) Indeed his poem Mandalay starts: “By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to the sea” – a shame then that Kyaikthanlan Pagoda, immortalised in Kipling’s words, actually looks west to the sea, but I guess he and his soldier were distracted by the beauty of his “Burma girl”.
  • (18) Mawlamyine appeared around a bend, below a ridge of pagoda-topped hills.
  • (19) The next day, my last, the buildings and apartment blocks started getting much taller, many with pagoda decorations on the rooftops.
  • (20) An employee at the White Pagoda drugstore added: "People didn't come here to buy one or two, but ordered a lot for their friends and family, and companies came here to buy for their staff, too. "

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).