Tower vs Terminal - What's the difference?
tower | terminal |
A structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires.
(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
(informal) An interlocking tower.
(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
* Bible, Psalms lxi. 3
(historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
* Hudibras
(obsolete) High flight; elevation.
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many decks, deemed an ill omen.
To be very tall.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To be high or lofty; to soar.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To soar into.
One who tows.
* 1933 , Henry Sturmey, ?H. Walter Staner, The Autocar
A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
In electronics, the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
An electric contact on a battery.
In telecommunications, the apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
(computing) In the context of computer hardware, a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
(computing) A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).
(computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
(illness) Fatal; resulting in death.
Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.
As nouns the difference between tower and terminal
is that tower is control tower (for air traffic) while terminal is terminal (at an airport etc).As a proper noun tower
is tower of london.tower
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(wikipedia tower)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) torr, from (etyl) turris. Probably influenced by Welsh .Noun
(en noun)- From the top of the tower we could see far off into the distance.
- Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
- Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers , and curls, and periwigs.
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* donjonDerived terms
* control tower * guardtower * interlocking tower * radio tower * siege tower * tower of Babel * towers of Hanoi * tower of strength * watchtower * water towerSee also
* * mastVerb
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* tower overEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window
Anagrams
*terminal
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- (example) terminal cancer