What's the difference between steeple and tower?

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.

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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