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 Translation for 'tower block' from English to Ukrainian
NOUN   a tower block | tower blocks
SYNO high-rise | tower block
арх.нерух.
багатоповерхівка {ж}
tower block [Br.]
Partial Matches
вежа {ж}tower
височіти [недок.]to tower
здійматися [недок.]to tower above
арх.
Ейфелева вежа {ж}
Eiffel Tower
арх.РадіоТБ
телевізійна вежа {ж}
television tower
арх.РадіоТБ
телевізійна вежа {ж}
TV tower
арх.
дзвіниця {ж}
bell tower
арх.
годинникова вежа {ж}
clock tower
арх.РадіоТБ
телевежа {ж}
TV tower
арх.РадіоТБ
телевежа {ж}
television tower
брила {ж}block
заблокувати [док.]to block
блок {ч}block
затримувати [недок.]to block
загороджувати [недок.]to block
блокпост {ч}road block
геол.
валун {ч}
erratic block
ядерн.
атомний блок {ч}
reactor block
квартал {ч} [міський]city block
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Usage Examples English
  • When he was 14 the family moved to a newly built tower block in Ibrox overlooking the home ground of Rangers, the club he had grown up supporting.
  • In preparation for this, the staffroom was moved to Firth Hall, the Uniform Shop opened a new premise next to the Archives, and the Computer Block was opened on the first floor of Tower Block.
  • The new studios, called South Bank Television Centre, included a large tower block named Kent House after the Duchess of Kent who officially opened the complex.
  • Cycle racks are available on Fairfield Street and the long-stay car park and next to the tower block at the station front.
  • Stephenson Tower, a 20-storey residential tower block, was built alongside the station between 1965 and 1966.

  • Eden Court in Lillington is a residential tower block and one of several tall landmarks.
  • A tower block of that name can be found opposite Stoke Newington railway station in North London.
  • The Alpha Tower was completed in 2008 and this tower block with 91 apartments spread over 29 floors, with a height of 101 meters, is the tallest building in Enschede and the whole province of Overijssel.
  • The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, in which a public-housing tower block was completely destroyed, with the loss of 72 lives, drew international attention to the borough.
  • In 1966, the council moved into new premises: a 15-storey tower block in the centre of Aylesbury (pictured) designed by county architect Fred Pooley. It is now a Grade II listed building.

  • The tower block is not strictly an extension to the earlier building: the two buildings are connected only by an elevated, enclosed footbridge.
  • An office tower block named Concourse House, along with a row of small retail outlets, used to stand outside the southern train shed, obscuring the arches.
  • by the early attempts at high density tower-block housing turned people away from this style of living.
  • A 13-storey tower block (the only building of such height in Rutherglen, although there are 10 towers of the same design in Cambuslang) looms over the centre of the neighbourhood; it was built on the site of the Springhall mansion house that once occupied the land, which came to public attention in the 1910s, first when suffragette Frances Gordon was imprisoned for attempting to set the house on fire, then soon afterwards when a contingent of Belgian refugees of World War I were invited to stay there; it was demolished in the 1940s.
  • There is no clear difference between a tower block and a skyscraper, although a building with forty or more stories and taller than [...] is generally considered a skyscraper.

  • The wages snatch scene in "Villain" (1971), a gangster film with Richard Burton, was filmed in Ellesfield Avenue on the Southern Industrial Estate outside the former Clark Eaton glass factory, with the ICL tower block visible in the background; after the robbery the gang make their getaway along Peacock Lane nearby and hijack a car at the junction with the footpath from Tarmans Copse (now Osprey Avenue on the Jennett's Park estate).
  • Highlights include new plays by Cosh Omar, "The Battle of Green Lanes" and "The Great Extension"; "Jamaica House" by Paul Sirett, which had a site-specific performance on the top floor of a tower block in Stepney; new musicals such as "Make Some Noise" and "One Dance Will Do"; Ray Davies’s "Come Dancing", winner of the "What’s On Stage" Best Musical; and John Adam's song play "I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky".
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