Tower
\n\n
A
tower is a high structure, usually man-made. The
sea can
erode the
land and make a tower known as a sea-stack.\n
Purposes:
- being impressive and beautiful\n*saving surface area\n*for the view\n** for tourism\n** for guiding: air traffic control tower, in particular at an airport\n** for security against coming in or getting out: a watch tower at a prison, concentration camp, fortress/castle, border/defensive wall; in some of these cases also to fire from;\n** for watching out for fire, especially in a forest: fire tower;\n*for spreading light: light tower, lighthouse\n*for spreading sound: church tower with church bells, minaret of a mosque\n*antenna tower\n*for use of the gravity: water tower\n*as part of a suspension bridge or cable-stayed bridge\n*for supporting power and signal cables\n*in a swimming pool for jumping from a height\n*for fun of climbing in it, for example on a children's playground\n*the tower of a high slide, for supporting it and with stairs for reaching the starting point\n*to gain access for maintenance or cleaning, e.g. scaffold tower\n*for attacking a walled city: siege tower\n*to reach heaven (legendary Tower of Babel)\n*note: in some parts of the English-speaking world, skyscrapers are not thought of as towers; however in the UK, tall domestic buildings are referred to as tower blocks and in the USA the now-destroyed New York World Trade Center has the nickname the Twin Towers, a moniker it shares with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.\n
\nA tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, firefighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming, etc.
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