Synonyms of the word

tower

• n. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite,…
• n. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires,…
• n. A water tower.
• n. A control tower.
• n. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
• n. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
• n. (informal) An interlocking tower.
• n. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
• n. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
• n. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
• n. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.
• v. (intransitive) To be very tall.
• v. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
• n. One who tows.

boat

• n. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or…
• n. (poker slang) A full house.
• n. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
• n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly…
• n. (Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees…
• v. (intransitive) To travel by boat.
• v. (transitive) To transport in a boat.
• v. (transitive) To place in a boat.

column

• n. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such…
• n. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
• n. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
• n. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent…
• n. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column…
• n. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single…
• n. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
• n. (botany) The gynostemium.
• n. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

hulk

• n. a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other…
• n. (archaic) any large ship that is difficult to maneuver.
• n. A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
• n. (bodybuilding): An excessively muscled person.
• v. To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

loom

• n. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
• n. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for…
• n. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.
• n. (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes).
• v. to impend; to threaten or hang over.
• v. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

pillar

• n. (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
• n. Something resembling such a structure.
• n. An essential part of something that provides support.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of…
• n. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
• v. To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.

predominate

• v. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
• v. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
• v. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
• adj. Predominant.

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

towboat

• n. (nautical) a tugboat.
• n. (nautical) a squat powerful boat designed to push barges.
• n. A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
• n. A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

tug

• v. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort.
• v. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) to tow by tugboat.
• n. a sudden powerful pull.
• n. (nautical) a tugboat.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
• n. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
• n. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
• n. (slang) An act of masturbation.

tugboat

• n. A small, powerful boat (a "tugship" in other languages) used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver…