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# tower

«tower» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall, narrow building or part of a building, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#m1)

2) A tower is a tall stack of things: a tower of blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#m2)

3) To tower over something is to be much taller than it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x1)
- Tim built a tower of 12 blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x2)
- Each block is 3 cm high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x3)
- Her tower is 4 blocks taller than his. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x4)
- Rapunzel let down her hair from the tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x5)
- The castle has four towers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x6)
- The giraffe towered over the zebras. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x7)
- Our team built the tallest tower out of paper cups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x8)
- So the King had a tower built on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/9/)
- [Tall, dark, towering thunderclouds can bring lightning, heavy rain, hail and strong wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/8/)
- [Lightning can strike the same place more than once; tall towers are struck many times a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/17/)
- [The tower could not be entered, because it wasn't his work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/9/)
- [He made a smaller, wobblier tower by himself — and was prouder of it than of the perfect one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.