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Перевод: spire

[существительное]
стрелка злака ; росток ; острие; шпиц [архит.] ; шпиль ; игла ; остроконечная верхушка; пик ; спираль ; виток ;
[глагол]
колоситься; прорастать (о зерне); подниматься ввысь; заостряться; суживаться кверху; двигаться по спирали; закручиваться в спираль; чертить спиральную линию

Тезаурус:

1. Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation, given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and, most obviously, a spire in the fifteenth century, making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building, far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury.
2. However, it was found only necessary for repairs to be made and the spire remains in place as a valuable landmark for passing shipping.
3. We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm.
4. CD credits the cathedral with "towers" ( MC 12), whereas it has one single (and world-famous) spire.
5. It eschewed the Gothic spire and mediaeval internal arrangements.
6. Its spire was said by a contemporary guide to Oxford to form "a conspicuous addition to the architectural adornments of the city".
7. The problem was that the spire was just a little too tall and too thin for its own good.
8. It once had a spire which, along with those at Ottringham and Patrington, helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south.
9. The sums involved were colossal: over 0.5 million for the spire and the roof.
10. The church was vast, with a tower and spire of cathedral proportions, and far beyond the resources of a small congregation.
11. In fact, when the spire was blown down during a gale, early in 1925, it was not replaced.
12. The low spire of this species, with a minutely beaded ornament, and the sharp rib around its outside edge, are features that discriminate this species from other gastropods.
13. He also criticized the competition among Nonconformists "of having the "highest spire in the neighbourhood"".