monolith vs tower

monolith

noun
  • Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure. 

  • A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times. 

  • A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc. 

  • A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches. 

verb
  • To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints. 

  • To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by breaking off or cutting its branches. 

  • To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith. 

tower

noun
  • Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To be high or lofty; to soar. 

  • To be very tall. 

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