noun geometry The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.See Spiral, n.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun (Geom.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.noun The top, or uppermost point, of anything the summit.noun (Mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself. noun A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form.noun A slender stalk or blade in vegetation.intransitive verb To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.Also called a spiral point.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun In mathematics, a point at which different leaves of a Riemann's surface are connected.noun In conchology, all the whorls of a spiral univalve above the aperture or the body-whorl, taken together as forming a turret.noun A winding line like the thread of a screw anything wreathed or contorted a coil a curl a twist a wreath a spiral.noun The top or uppermost point of a thing the summit.A body that shoots up to a point a tapering body a conical or pyramidal body specifically, in architecture, the tapering part of a steeple rising above the tower a steeple the great pinnacle, often of wood covered with lead, frequently crowning the crossing of the nave in large churches. noun In mining, the tube carrying the train to the charge in the blast-hole: so called from the spires of grass or rushes used for the purpose.noun A name of various tall grasses, as the marram, Ammophila arundinacea the reed canary-grass, Phalaris arundinacea and the common reed, Phragmites communis.
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noun The continuation of the trunk in a more or less excurrent tree above the point where branching begins.noun A stalk of grass or some similar plant a spear.noun The male of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, in its third year.noun The area farthest from the aperture and nearest the apex on a coiled gastropod shell.noun A single turn of a spiral a whorl.
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intransitive verb To rise and taper steeply.intransitive verb To furnish with a spire.
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