Aspire vs. Spire

Aspireverb

(intransitive) To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).

Aspireverb

To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

Aspireverb

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

Aspireverb

To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; - followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.

Aspireverb

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

Aspireverb

To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

Aspirenoun

Aspiration.

Aspireverb

have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

Spirenoun

The stalk or stem of a plant.

Spirenoun

A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

Spirenoun

Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

Spirenoun

A sharp or tapering point.

Spirenoun

A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.

Spirenoun

The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

Spirenoun

(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

Spirenoun

One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.

Spirenoun

A spiral.

Spirenoun

(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

Spireverb

(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.

Spireverb

To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

Spireverb

(transitive) To furnish with a spire.

Spireverb

To breathe.

Spireverb

To breathe.

Spireverb

To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.

Spirenoun

A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.

Spirenoun

A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.

Spirenoun

A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

Spirenoun

The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

Spirenoun

A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.

Spirenoun

The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.

Spirenoun

a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

Spire

A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape.