climb vs tower

climb

verb
  • To ascend; rise; to go up. 

  • To mount; to move upwards on. 

  • To move to a higher position on the social ladder. 

  • to jump high 

  • Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something. 

  • To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. 

  • to practise the sport of climbing 

  • To scale; to get to the top of something. 

noun
  • The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. 

  • An upwards struggle 

  • An act of climbing. 

tower

verb
  • To be high or lofty; to soar. 

  • To be very tall. 

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

  • A water tower. 

  • A strong refuge; a defence. 

  • The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness. 

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

  • A control tower. 

  • Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper. 

  • An interlocking tower. 

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

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

  • One who tows. 

  • An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide. 

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