Tower vs. Pavilion

Towernoun

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

Pavilionnoun

An ornate tent.

Towernoun

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

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

A water tower.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

A control tower.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.

‘The Sears Tower’;

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

(informal) An interlocking tower.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.

Pavilionnoun

(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

Towernoun

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

Pavilionnoun

(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.

Towernoun

(obsolete) High flight; elevation.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

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

Pavilionnoun

(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.

Towernoun

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

Pavilionnoun

A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

Towernoun

One who tows.

Pavilionverb

(transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.

Towerverb

(intransitive) To be very tall.

‘The office block towered into the sky.’;

Pavilionverb

(transitive) To put inside a pavilion.

Towerverb

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

Pavilionverb

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

Towerverb

To soar into.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

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

Pavilionnoun

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.

Towernoun

A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

‘Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.’;

Pavilionnoun

A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.

Towernoun

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.’;

Pavilionnoun

Same as Tent (Her.)

Towernoun

High flight; elevation.

Pavilionnoun

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

Towerverb

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.’;

Pavilionnoun

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

Towerverb

To soar into.

Pavilionnoun

A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

‘The pavilion of heaven is bare.’;

Towernoun

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

Pavilionverb

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

‘The field pavilioned with his guardians bright.’;

Towernoun

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’;

Pavilionnoun

large and often sumptuous tent

Towernoun

a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

Pavilionnoun

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

Towerverb

appear very large or occupy a commanding position;

‘The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain’; ‘Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall’;

Pavilionnoun

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

Towernoun

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’;

Pavilionnoun

used in the names of buildings used for theatrical or other entertainments

‘the resort's Spa Pavilion’;

Towernoun

a fortress or stronghold in the form of or including a tower.

Pavilionnoun

a detached or semi-detached block at a hospital or other building complex

‘the form of alternating pavilions also allows the site to be developed in depth’;

Towernoun

see Tower of London

Pavilionnoun

a large tent with a peak and crenellated decorations, used at a show or fair.

Towernoun

a tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc.

‘a control tower’;

Pavilionnoun

a temporary building, stand, or other structure in which items are displayed at a trade exhibition

‘they designed the British pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010’;

Towernoun

a tall structure used as a receptacle or for storage

‘a CD tower’;

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.

Towernoun

a tall pile or mass of something

‘a titanic tower of garbage’;

Towerverb

rise to or reach a great height

‘he seemed to tower over everyone else’;

Towerverb

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

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.