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spire
  1. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant. [from 10th c.]
  2. A young shoot of a plant; a spear. [from 14th c.]
  3. A sharp or tapering point. [from 16th c.]
  4. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]
  5. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [from 17th c.]
  6. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The church's spire had been a distinctive Hartford landmark, recognized as perhaps the finest steeple in the city.”
      “If these plants have spikes and spires, they also add vertical movement, drama, and an airy lightness to the garden.”
      “Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.”
spiral
  1. (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
  2. (informal) A helix.
  3. A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It is in the shape of a leaning spiral, where the circles fall into darkness and disappear in the heights of the light.”
spire
  1. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. [from 16th c.]
  2. A spiral. [from 17th c.]
  3. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The church's spire had been a distinctive Hartford landmark, recognized as perhaps the finest steeple in the city.”
      “If these plants have spikes and spires, they also add vertical movement, drama, and an airy lightness to the garden.”
      “Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.”
spirillum
  1. Any of various aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, having an elongated spiral form and bearing a tuft of flagella.
  2. Any of various other spiral-shaped microorganisms.
  3. Examples:
    1. “By far the most important of these is the spirillum or spirochete of Obermeier, which has been already carefully described.”
      “The term spirillum is used generally for any of the corkscrew-like species.”
      “Vibrio spirillum is excessively minute, colourless, and found in decomposing vegetable mixtures.”
spirifer
  1. (paleontology) Any of numerous species of fossil brachiopods of the genera †Spirifer and †Delthyris and allied genera in order †Spiriferida, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.
  2. Examples:
    1. Spirifer, a typical genus of this time, is characterized by plicate shells with a wide hinge line.”
spiralizer
  1. A culinary device that turns food into a spiral shape, like pasta.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Before we get to the recipe for this soup, here's a step-by-step tutorial for using a spiralizer to cut zucchini noodles.”
      “Having said that, a spiralizer would make light work of cutting the vegetables for this slaw.”
      “Follow Bill on Instagram at bill.granger Spiced pork-belly bun with kimchi slaw I must be the last person in west London not to have bought a spiralizer.”
spiralian
  1. (zoology) Any animal that exhibits a spiral cleavage pattern (typically molluscs)
spiraling
spiralization
  1. the act of forming into a spiral
spirality
  1. The condition of being spiral.
spirelet
  1. (architecture) A small or slender spire.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The church has a tower with triple belfry windows, which is lofty and finished with pinnacles and spirelet.”
      “It is a stately structure of four stages, with the customary projecting stone turret and spirelet.”
      “The spirelet above is also greatly enriched, and additional pinnacles are introduced.”
spiralling
spiralizations
  1. plural of spiralization
spiralizers
  1. plural of spiralizer
spirallings
spirilla
  1. plural of spirillum
  2. Examples:
    1. “The retention of the normal shape that we observed may be caused by steric restrictions on a major change in shape and size by neighboring spirilla and bdellovibrios.”
      “Examination of the blood prior to the invasion does not discover any spirilla.”
      “The same takes place with the spirilla of recurrent typhus and the microbe of erysipelas.”
spirillums
  1. plural of spirillum
spiralians
  1. plural of spiralian
spiralings
spiralities
  1. plural of spirality
spirelets
  1. plural of spirelet
spirifers
  1. plural of spirifer
spirals
  1. plural of spiral
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Made of 2in-thick slabs of precisely jointed oak, it spirals up, entirely self-supporting, without even a central pillar.”
      “Their limbs stretch out, yawning and dipping into spirals, leans and lifts.”
      “Random pipes and spirals, and a control panel of unmarked knobs and sliders completed the B-movie feel.”
spires
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