Tower vs. Pavilion — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tower and Pavilion
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Tower
A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.
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Pavilion
In architecture, pavilion has several meanings: It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure.
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Tower
A tall, narrow building, either free-standing or forming part of a building such as a church or castle
The south-west tower is a wonderful example of late Gothic
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Pavilion
A building at a cricket ground or other sports ground, used for changing and taking refreshments.
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Tower
A tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc.
A control tower
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Pavilion
A summer house or other decorative building used as a shelter in a park or large garden.
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Tower
Rise to or reach a great height
He seemed to tower over everyone else
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Pavilion
An ornate tent.
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Tower
(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry.
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Pavilion
A light, sometimes ornamental roofed structure, used for amusement or shelter, as at parks or fairs
A picnic pavilion.
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Tower
A building or part of a building that is exceptionally high in proportion to its width and length.
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Pavilion
A usually temporary structure erected at a fair or show for use by an exhibitor
The French pavilion at the World's Fair.
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Tower
A tall, slender structure used for observation, signaling, or pumping.
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Pavilion
A large structure housing sports or entertainment facilities; an arena.
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Tower
One that conspicuously embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue.
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Pavilion
A structure or another building connected to a larger building; an annex.
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Tower
(Computers) A computer system whose components are arranged in a vertical stack and housed in a tall, narrow cabinet.
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Pavilion
One of a group of related buildings forming a complex, as of a hospital.
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Tower
To appear at or rise to a conspicuous height; loom
"There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them" (J.R.R. Tolkien).
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Pavilion
The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gem, slanting outward from the culet to the girdle.
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Tower
To fly directly upward before swooping or falling. Used of certain birds.
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Pavilion
To cover or furnish with or as if with a pavilion.
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Tower
To demonstrate great superiority; be preeminent
Towers over other poets of the day.
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Pavilion
To put in or as if in a pavilion.
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Tower
A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
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Pavilion
An ornate tent.
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Tower
A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
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Pavilion
A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
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Tower
A water tower.
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Pavilion
A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
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Tower
A control tower.
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Pavilion
(cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
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Tower
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
The Sears Tower
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Pavilion
A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
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Tower
(figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
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Pavilion
The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
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Tower
(informal) An interlocking tower.
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Pavilion
(anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
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Tower
(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
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Pavilion
(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
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Tower
(historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
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Pavilion
(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
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Tower
(obsolete) High flight; elevation.
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Pavilion
A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
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Tower
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
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Pavilion
(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
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Tower
(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
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Pavilion
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
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Tower
One who tows.
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Pavilion
(transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
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Tower
(intransitive) To be very tall.
The office block towered into the sky.
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Pavilion
(transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
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Tower
(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
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Pavilion
To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").
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Tower
To soar into.
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Pavilion
A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
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Tower
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
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Pavilion
A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
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Tower
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
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Pavilion
A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
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Tower
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
Lay trains of amorous intriguesIn towers, and curls, and periwigs.
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Pavilion
Same as Tent (Her.)
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Tower
High flight; elevation.
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Pavilion
That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
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Tower
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
On the other side an high rock towered still.
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
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Pavilion
The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
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Tower
To soar into.
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Pavilion
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
The pavilion of heaven is bare.
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Tower
A structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
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Pavilion
To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
The field pavilioned with his guardians bright.
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Tower
Anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;
The test tube held a column of white powder
A tower of dust rose above the horizon
A thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite
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Pavilion
Large and often sumptuous tent
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Tower
A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
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Tower
Appear very large or occupy a commanding position;
The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain
Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall
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