tower
part of speech
noun, verb (tower, towers, towered, towering)
meaning for a pupil
1) A tower is a tall, narrow building or part of a building, like a castle tower or a clock tower. tree →
2) A tower is a tall stack of things: a tower of blocks. tree →
3) To tower over something is to be much taller than it. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: heights; towers built from blocks, floors and steps: height of a stack = blocks × height of one block; comparing towers means add or subtract the difference. Engineering: building strong towers from straws or paper. Stories: Rapunzel in her tower; famous towers like the Eiffel Tower.
examples
- The tower is 50 meters tall. tree →
- Tim built a tower of 12 blocks. tree →
- Each block is 3 cm high. tree →
- Her tower is 4 blocks taller than his. tree →
- Rapunzel let down her hair from the tower. tree →
- The castle has four towers. tree →
- The giraffe towered over the zebras. tree →
- Our team built the tallest tower out of paper cups. tree →
- So the King had a tower built on purpose. tree →
note
Countable noun; regular verb. Height of a stack = blocks × height of one block. Comparing towers means add or subtract the difference. Trap: a tower of 12 blocks has 12 layers, not 11.
In the corpora
- Bricks that overlap the joins, like a real brick wall, make a much stronger tower than bricks stacked straight up.
- Tall, dark, towering thunderclouds can bring lightning, heavy rain, hail and strong wind.
- Lightning can strike the same place more than once; tall towers are struck many times a year.
- The tower could not be entered, because it wasn't his work.
- He made a smaller, wobblier tower by himself — and was prouder of it than of the perfect one.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tower» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.