Tower vs. Turret

Towernoun

A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.

Towernoun

A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.

Towernoun

A water tower.

Towernoun

A control tower.

Towernoun

Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.

Towernoun

(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.

Towernoun

(informal) An interlocking tower.

Towernoun

(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.

Towernoun

(historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.

Towernoun

(obsolete) High flight; elevation.

Towernoun

The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

Towernoun

(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

Towernoun

One who tows.

Towerverb

(intransitive) To be very tall.

Towerverb

(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.

Towerverb

To soar into.

Towernoun

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

Towernoun

A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

Towernoun

A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

Towernoun

High flight; elevation.

Towerverb

To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

Towerverb

To soar into.

Towernoun

a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building

Towernoun

anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;

Towernoun

a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

Towerverb

appear very large or occupy a commanding position;

Towernoun

a tall, narrow building, either free-standing or forming part of a building such as a church or castle

Towernoun

a fortress or stronghold in the form of or including a tower.

Towernoun

see Tower of London

Towernoun

a tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc.

Towernoun

a tall structure used as a receptacle or for storage

Towernoun

a tall pile or mass of something

Towerverb

rise to or reach a great height

Towerverb

(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry.

Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.

Turretnoun

(architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

Turretnoun

A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

Turretnoun

(electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

Turretnoun

(military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.

Turretnoun

(railroads) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

Turretnoun

A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

Turretnoun

A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

Turretnoun

A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

Turretnoun

The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

Turretnoun

a small tower extending above a building

Turretnoun

a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

Turretnoun

a small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle

Turretnoun

a low armoured tower, typically one that revolves, for a gun and gunners in a ship, aircraft, fort, or tank.

Turretnoun

a rotating holder for tools, especially on a lathe.

Turret

In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification.