Substantiv
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| spire -
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
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| spire -
A sharp or tapering point.
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| spire -
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
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| spire -
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
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| spire -
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
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| spire -
A spiral.
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| spire -
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
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Verb
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| spire -
Of a seed, plant etc. : to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
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| spire -
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
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