Tower vs. Pavilion — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

A tall, narrow building, either free-standing or forming part of a building such as a church or castle

A building at a cricket ground or other sports ground, used for changing and taking refreshments.

A tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc.

A summer house or other decorative building used as a shelter in a park or large garden.

Rise to or reach a great height

An ornate tent.

(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry.

A light, sometimes ornamental roofed structure, used for amusement or shelter, as at parks or fairs

A building or part of a building that is exceptionally high in proportion to its width and length.

A usually temporary structure erected at a fair or show for use by an exhibitor

A tall, slender structure used for observation, signaling, or pumping.

A large structure housing sports or entertainment facilities; an arena.

One that conspicuously embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue.

A structure or another building connected to a larger building; an annex.

(Computers) A computer system whose components are arranged in a vertical stack and housed in a tall, narrow cabinet.

One of a group of related buildings forming a complex, as of a hospital.

To appear at or rise to a conspicuous height; loom

The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gem, slanting outward from the culet to the girdle.

To fly directly upward before swooping or falling. Used of certain birds.

To cover or furnish with or as if with a pavilion.

To demonstrate great superiority; be preeminent

To put in or as if in a pavilion.

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

An ornate tent.

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

A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.

A water tower.

A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.

A control tower.

(cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.

Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.

A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.

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

The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.

(informal) An interlocking tower.

(anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.

(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.

(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

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

(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.

(obsolete) High flight; elevation.

A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.

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

(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.

(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

One who tows.

(transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.

(intransitive) To be very tall.

(transitive) To put inside a pavilion.

(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.

To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").

To soar into.

A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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.

A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.

A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

Same as Tent (Her.)

High flight; elevation.

That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

To soar into.

A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

A structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building

To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

Anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;

Large and often sumptuous tent

A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position;