Le mot anglais du jour

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anglais > français
tower
1. n. Tour.
2. v. (Intransitif) Être très grand.
3. v. (Intransitif) Être haut, planer.
anglais > anglais
tower
1. n. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
2. n. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
3. n. A water tower.
4. n. A control tower.
5. n. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
The Sears Tower
6. n. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
7. n. (informal) An interlocking tower.
8. n. (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
9. n. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
10. n. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
11. n. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
12. n. (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
13. v. (intransitive) To be very tall.
The office block towered into the sky.
14. v. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
15. v. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
16. n. One who tows.
français > anglais
tour
1. n-f. tower
La tour de Pise est penchée. - The Tower of Pisa is leaning.
2. n-f. (chess) rook
3. n-f. apartment building
4. n-m. turn, circumference
5. n-m. go, turn
6. n-m. walk, stroll
7. n-m. round, stage (of a competition)
8. n-m. trick (e.g. magic trick, card trick)
9. n-m. ride
10. n-m. lathe
11. n-m. potter’s wheel

Exemples de phrases

The tower can be seen from here.      La tour peut être vue d'ici. The picture of the tower was out of focus.      La photo de la tour était floutée. From my position, I cannot see the tower.      Depuis ma position, je ne vois pas la tour. Do you know how high the television tower is?      Savez-vous quelle est la hauteur de la tour de télévision? I see the tower from my house.      Je vois la tour de chez moi.

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