1) Activity tracker 2) An architectural high point 3) Architectural high point 4) Architectural topper 5) Cathedral feature 6) Cathedral top 7) Cathedral topper 8) Cathedral tower 9) Chapel feature 10) Chapel top 11) Chapel topper 12) Chrysler building feature 13) Church bell locale 14) Church bell location
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1) Pinnacle 2) Steeple
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[Atlanta] Spire is a 453ft (138m) tall skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built from 2004 to 2005 on the site of the former Atlanta Cabana Motel. It has 28 floors and is tied with the Equitable Building as the 21st tallest building in the city, and has 392 units. ...
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[Denver] Spire is a high-rise building containing 496 condominium homes in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. Standing at 147.2 meters with 41 floors, Spire is the ninth tallest building in Denver and was designed by architecture firm RNL Design. The building is at 14th Street in downtown Denver. It cost $175,000,000 to build, from 200...
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[activity tracker] Spire is a wearable activity tracker worn on the waistband or bra strap designed to analyze breath rates to determine levels of tension, calm, or focus. Spire launched preorders on June 17, 2014. It is currently compatible with Apple iOS devices running iOS 7.1 or higher. The device resembles a grey stone with a large cli...
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[mollusc] A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs. The spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl. Each spire whorl represents a rotation of 360°. A spire is part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc, a gastropod shell, and also the whorls of the shell in ammonites, which are fossil shelled cephalopods....
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[social networking service] Spire, formerly known as LifeKraze, is a web-based social networking service founded in April 2010. Members share `real-world` personal accomplishments with their friends, and are rewarded by other members. Members can award each other points for each accomplishment. Members can use the points they`ve collected t...
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young timber tree reaching a considerable height before having branches (P 205)
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• (v. i.) To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire. • (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. • (n.) A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist. • (n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting. • (n.) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. • (n.) ...
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Map-specific to Badlands. Refers to the rock spire where the second and fourth control points sit.
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A slender, pointed construction atop a building, often a church.
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in architecture, steeply pointed pyramidal or conical termination to a tower. In its mature Gothic development, the spire was an elongated, slender ... [2 related articles]
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In architecture, an elongated pyramidal structure erected on the top of a tower. Though commonly regarded as an ornamental feature, it was originally a normal pyramidal roof (as at Southwell...
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The pointed top of stone, slate or lead from a church tower. Medieval spires are rare - though there are two in Northumberland at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea and Warkworth. A lead spire survives at Ryton (Tyne and Wear) - but many of these spires were melted down in the English Civil War for money.
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To breathe. ... Origin: L. Spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ... 1. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. 'An oak cometh up a little spire.' (Chaucer) ... 2. A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically, the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportio...
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young timber tree reaching a considerable height before having branches (P 205)
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Spire intransitive verb [ Latin
spirare to breathe. See
Spirit .] To breathe. [ Obsolete]
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Spire noun [ Middle English
spire ,
spir , a blade of grass, a young shoot, Anglo-Saxon
spīr ; akin to German
spier a blade of grass, Danish
spire a sprout, sprig, Swedish
spira a spar, Icelandic
spīra .]
1. A slender stalk or bl...
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An elongated, pointed structure which rises from a tower, turret,or roof.
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In architecture a spire is the name given to the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width. The name is also given to the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; and to the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
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A spire rising from the tower without any parapet.
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spire 1. The totality of whorls of a spinal shell. 2. The area farthest from the aperture and nearest the apex on a coiled gastropod shell. 3. A winding line like the threads of a screw 4. Any thing wreathed or contorted; a curl; a twist; a wreath.
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A sharply pointed pyramidal structure surmounting a tower.
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