Dictionary Entry
spire
spire is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To breathe. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To breathe.
- 2noun
A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
- 3noun
A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. 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.
- 4noun
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
- 5noun
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- 6intransitive verb
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
- 7noun
A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
- 8noun
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral.
- 9noun
a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
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