Surface
Tower
Tower verb - Appear very large or occupy a commanding position.
How words are described
| high | high surface | high tower |
| original | original surface | original tower |
| upper | upper surface | upper tower |
| top | top surface | top tower |
| Other adjectives: visible, small, actual, entire, real, large, wooden, new, last, nearby, frozen, nearest. | ||
Common collocations
| thanks | surface thanks | tower thanks |
Both words in one sentence
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Often inverted by submarine captains on surface run and surface attack, as the captain is assumed to be at the conning tower, leading the attack.
Source: Going Down with the Ship - The tower in the sky then gets struck by lightning and falls to the surface of the earth.
Source: Self-Destruct Mechanism -
The final section of Prey (2006) involves climbing up the kilometres-tall tower connecting the surface of a spherical, planetoid-sized spaceship to its centre.
Source: It's All Upstairs from Here
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