Aspire vs. Spire

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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.”

  • Aspire (verb)

    To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

  • Aspire (verb)

    To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

  • Spire (noun)

    The stalk or stem of a plant. from 10th c.

  • Spire (noun)

    A young shoot of a plant; a spear. from 14th c.

  • Spire (noun)

    Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

  • Spire (noun)

    A sharp or tapering point. from 16th c.

  • 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.”

  • Spire (noun)

    The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. from 17th c.

  • Spire (noun)

    A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

  • Spire (noun)

    One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. from 16th c.

  • Spire (noun)

    A spiral. from 17th c.

  • Spire (noun)

    The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

  • Spire (verb)

    to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. from 14th c.

  • Spire (verb)

    To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. from 14th c.

  • Spire (verb)

    To furnish with a spire.

  • Spire (verb)

    To breathe. 14th-16th c.

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