spire

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

spires

1.
(archaic)(now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
2.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
3.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
4.
A sharp or tapering point.
5.
(architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
The spire of the church rose high above the town.
Đồng nghĩa: steeple
6.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
7.
(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
8.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
9.
A spiral.
10.
(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

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verb

V_es/s

spires

V_ing/Gerund

spiring

V_ed/pp

spired

1.
(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
2.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
3.
(transitive)To furnish with a spire.
4.
(intransitive, obsolete)To breathe.

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Đồng nghĩa

steeplesteeple (informal)

Cùng gốc / liên quan

acrospirespireless spireletspirelikespireward spirewise spirybroached spire

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (peak; point; tip; stalk). Cognate with spier, Spier, Spier, Spiere, spir, spir and spire, spira, spíra.