Spire
A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.
Etymologically, the word is derived from the Old English word spir, meaning a sprout, shoot, or stalk of grass.
Aspire (verb)
To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).
"He aspires to become a successful doctor."
Aspire (verb)
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
Aspire (verb)
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
Spire (noun)
The stalk or stem of a plant. from 10th c.
Spire (noun)
A young shoot of a plant; a spear. from 14th c.
Spire (noun)
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
Spire (noun)
A sharp or tapering point. from 16th c.
Spire (noun)
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. from 16th c.
"The spire of the church rose high above the town."
Spire (noun)
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. from 17th c.
Spire (noun)
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Spire (noun)
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. from 16th c.
Spire (noun)
A spiral. from 17th c.
Spire (noun)
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Spire (verb)
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. from 14th c.
Spire (verb)
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. from 14th c.
Spire (verb)
To furnish with a spire.
Spire (verb)
To breathe. 14th-16th c.
Aspire (verb)
To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; - followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
Aspire (verb)
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
Aspire
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
Aspire (noun)
Aspiration.
Spire (verb)
To breathe.
Spire (verb)
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
Spire (noun)
A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
Spire (noun)
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.
Spire (noun)
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
Spire (noun)
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
Spire (noun)
A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
Spire (noun)
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
Aspire (verb)
have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
Spire (noun)
a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
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