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Spire
A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.
Etymologically, the word is derived from the Old English word spir, meaning a sprout, shoot, or stalk of grass.
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Aspire (verb)
To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).
“He aspires to become a successful doctor.”
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Aspire (verb)
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
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Aspire (verb)
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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Spire (noun)
The stalk or stem of a plant. from 10th c.
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Spire (noun)
A young shoot of a plant; a spear. from 14th c.
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Spire (noun)
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
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Spire (noun)
A sharp or tapering point. from 16th c.
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Spire (noun)
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. from 16th c.
“The spire of the church rose high above the town.”
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Spire (noun)
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. from 17th c.
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Spire (noun)
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
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Spire (noun)
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. from 16th c.
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Spire (noun)
A spiral. from 17th c.
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Spire (noun)
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
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Spire (verb)
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. from 14th c.
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Spire (verb)
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. from 14th c.
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Spire (verb)
To furnish with a spire.
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Spire (verb)
To breathe. 14th-16th c.