spire
n. narrow tapering structure on the top of a building, steeple; natural structure which tapers to a point (i.e. blade of grass) v. furnish with a spire; taper to a point | ||||
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SPIRES Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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spire
Noun
1. a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
(synonym) steeple
(hypernym) tower
(hyponym) pinnacle
(classification) church service, church
Noun
1. a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
(synonym) steeple
(hypernym) tower
(hyponym) pinnacle
(classification) church service, church
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| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Mwn
Mwn = n. what spires up; a particle; a mine, ore
Mwn = n. what spires up; a particle; a mine, ore
Pyr
Pyr = n. what spires; a fir, adv. forward, toward
SPIRES Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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SPIRES Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Spires
Spires is the name of:
- SPIRES, a database for publications in High-Energy Physics
- Speyer (English formerly Spires), a city in Germany
- The Spires, a commercial conference centre, operated out of Church House, Belfast by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
- The spire, a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower.
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Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System
The Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) is a bibliographic physics database management system (DBMS). It was written at Stanford University in the late 1970s as a text-based system. The primary authors were Thomas H. Martin , Dick Guertin and Bill Kiefer. It has also come to refer to a particular application using this DBMS that provides a bibliographic database for High Energy Physics literature.
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