Spire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A top part or point that tapers upward; a pinnacle.
  • n. A structure or formation, such as a steeple, that tapers to a point at the top.
  • n. A slender, tapering part, such as a newly sprouting blade of grass.
  • v. To furnish with a spire.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise and taper steeply.
  • n. A spiral.
  • n. A single turn of a spiral; a whorl.
  • n. The area farthest from the aperture and nearest the apex on a coiled gastropod shell.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To breathe.
  • n. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
  • n. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
  • verb-intransitive. To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
  • n. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
  • n. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A sprout or shoot of a plant.
  • n. A stalk of grass or some similar plant; a spear.
  • n. The continuation of the trunk in a more or less excurrent tree above the point where branching begins.
  • n. A name of various tall grasses, as the marram, Ammophila arundinacea; the reed canary-grass, Phalaris arundinacea; and the common reed, Phragmites communis. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names.
  • n. In mining, the tube carrying the train to the charge in the blast-hole: so called from the spires of grass or rushes used for the purpose. Also called reed or rush. A body that shoots up to a point; a tapering body; a conical or pyramidal body; specifically, in architecture, the tapering part of a steeple rising above the tower; a steeple; the great pinnacle, often of wood covered with lead, frequently crowning the crossing of the nave in large churches.
  • n. The top or uppermost point of a thing; the summit.
  • To sprout, as grain in malting.
  • To shoot; shoot up sharply.
  • To shoot or send forth.
  • To furnish with a spire or spires.
  • n. A winding line like the thread of a screw; anything wreathed or contorted; a coil; a curl; a twist; a wreath; a spiral.
  • n. In conchology, all the whorls of a spiral univalve above the aperture or the body-whorl, taken together as forming a turret.
  • n. In mathematics, a point at which different leaves of a Riemann's surface are connected. Also called a spiral point.
  • To breathe.
  • A Middle English form of speer.
  • n. The male of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, in its third year.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
  • Verb Form
    spired    spires    spiring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tower   
    Cross Reference
    growth   
    Variant
    spiral   
    Hyponym
    pinnacle   
    Form
    spired    spiring   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    breathe    spiral    curl    whorl    twist    coil    rise    jet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gire    Gyr    Tyre    admire    afire    aspire    dire    expire    fire    gire   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dome    pinnacle    pillar    steeple    tower    turret    crag    pyramid    peak    battlements