spire
n. 尖塔, 尖顶, 锥形体, 螺旋 vi. 突出, 耸立, 螺旋形上升 vt. 给...加塔尖
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1.
The stalk or stem of a plant.
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A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
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Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
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A sharp or tapering point.
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A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
尖塔
尖顶
建筑The spire of the church rose high above the town.
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The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
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A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
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One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
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A spiral.
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The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
数学
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to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
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To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
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To furnish with a spire.
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To breathe.
不及物 废旧
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From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.
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