Tower

A tower is a high structure, usually man-made. The sea can erosion the land and make a tower known as a sea-stack. Purposes: *being impressive or beautiful *saving surface area *for the view ** for tourism ** for guiding: air traffic control tower, in particular at an airport, harbour control towers at harbours ** for security against coming in or getting out: a watch tower at a prison, concentration camp, fortress/castle, border/defensive wall; in some of these cases also to fire from; ** for watching out for fire, especially in a forest: fire tower; *for spreading light: light tower, lighthouse *for spreading sound: church tower with church bells, minaret of a mosque, bell tower *for showing the time (clock tower) *as storage for grain (silo) *for increasing communications distances: radio masts and towers *for use of the gravity: water tower, drop tower *for meteorological measurements in different heights (measurement tower) *as part of a suspension bridge or cable-stayed bridge *for supporting power and signal cables (pylon) *for access to rockets in order to prepare them for launch (service tower, supply tower) *for the guidance of unguided rockets at launch launch tower) *for physical experiments (drop tower, BREN Tower) *for Solar thermal energy stations *as chimneys *for fixing nuclear bombs at tests (bomb tower) *for drilling in the ground (drilling tower) *in a swimming pool for jumping from a height *for fun of climbing in it, for example on a children's playground *the tower of a high slide, for supporting it and with stairs for reaching the starting point *for gaining wind power *as support structure for aerial tramways *to gain access for repair and maintenance or cleaning, e.g. scaffolding tower *for mounting thyristors in a HVDC (thyristor tower) *as a heat exchanger for an industrial plant, a power plant or large building air conditioning plant, a cooling tower *for attacking a walled city: siege tower *to reach heaven (legendary Tower of Babel) *for the production of bullets, a Shot Tower (Dubuque) (German:Schrotkugel) *for ski jumping and ski flying *formerly, for drying of hoses in a fire station. Skyscrapers are sometimes not thought of as towers. In the UK, tall domestic buildings are referred to as tower blocks. In the USA the now-destroyed New York World Trade Center had the nickname the Twin Towers, a name shared with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. A tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, firefighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming. A railroad tower allowed railroad employees to view the tracks and railroad switch near the tower; it now refers to any location housing interlocking (railroad) equipment. See also: *Eiffel Tower *Funkturm Berlin *Gerbrandy Tower *Petronas Tower *Tower of London *Tokyo Tower *World's tallest structures *List of towers *Inclined towers Towers

Tower

If skyscrapers aren't considered to be towers, why was the World Trade Center also known as the Twin Towers? Skyscrapers notwithstanding, I am more use to considering a tower as being ''part'' of a structure, rather than an entire structure. Especially in castle and mock-castle architecture. Perhaps it needs a separate topic. Or perhaps I'll write one. User:Notinasnaid 14:31, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Words begining with Tower:

Tower
Tower
Tower,_Minnesota
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TowerDragon
Towerlog.jpeg
Towers
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Towersey
Towersey_festival
Towersey_Village_Festival
Towers_Department_Stores
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Towers_in_Armenia
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Towers_in_Austria
Towers_in_Azerbaijan
Towers_in_Belgium
Towers_in_California
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Towers_in_China
Towers_in_Colorado
Towers_in_Connecticut
Towers_in_Denmark
Towers_in_Estonia
Towers_in_Finland
Towers_in_France
Towers_in_Georgia_(country)
Towers_in_Germany
Towers_in_Greece
Towers_in_Hawaii
Towers_in_Illinois
Towers_in_India
Towers_in_Iowa
Towers_in_Iran
Towers_in_Italy
Towers_in_Japan
Towers_in_Kazakhstan
Towers_in_Kuwait
Towers_in_Latvia
Towers_in_Lithuania
Towers_in_Maine
Towers_in_Malaysia
Towers_in_Maryland
Towers_in_Michigan
Towers_in_Minnesota
Towers_in_Missouri
Towers_in_Nevada
Towers_in_New_York
Towers_in_New_Zealand
Towers_in_North_Carolina
Towers_in_North_Korea
Towers_in_Norway
Towers_in_Ohio
Towers_in_Oklahoma
Towers_in_Poland
Towers_in_Russia
Towers_in_Saudi_Arabia
Towers_in_Slovakia
Towers_in_Slovenia
Towers_in_South_Africa
Towers_in_South_Dakota
Towers_in_South_Korea
Towers_in_Spain
Towers_in_Sweden
Towers_in_Switzerland
Towers_in_Tennessee
Towers_in_Texas
Towers_in_the_Czech_Republic
Towers_in_the_Netherlands
Towers_in_the_United_States
Towers_in_Turkey
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Towers_in_Uzbekistan
Towers_in_Washington
Towers_in_Wisconsin
Towers_of_Hanoi
Towers_of_hanoi
Towers_of_Light
Towers_of_Paine
Towers_of_Paine
Towers_of_Santa_Palomba
Towers_Of_Silence
Towers_of_Silence
Tower_(disambiguation)
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Tower_Air
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Tower_City_Center
Tower_City_Center
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Tower_Gateway_tube_station
Tower_Grove_Park
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Tower_Hill
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Tower_Hill_Memorial
Tower_Hill_memorial
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Tower_Hill_Shorelands,_Michigan
Tower_Hill_station
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Tower_Of_Babel
Tower_of_Babel
Tower_of_Babel
Tower_of_babel
Tower_Of_Babel_(computer_game)
Tower_of_Babel_(computer_game)
Tower_of_David
Tower_of_Druaga
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Tower_of_Glass
Tower_of_Hanoi
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Tower_of_Pisa
Tower_Of_Power
Tower_of_Power
Tower_of_Rassilon
Tower_of_Silence
Tower_of_Siloam
Tower_of_Song
Tower_of_Song
Tower_of_Terror
Tower_of_terror
Tower_of_Terror_(movie)
Tower_of_the_Americas
Tower_of_the_Gods
Tower_of_the_Juche_idea
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Tower_of_the_Winds
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Tower_Park
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Tower_Subway
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Tower_testing_station
Tower_Train_Museum
Tower_Train_Museum