Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

control tower

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: con-trol -tow-er
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An airport building from which the air traffic control unit monitors and directs the movement of aircraft on and around the airport.

noun

An enclosed, raised structure occupied by one or more persons who operate or exercise control over railway traffic, ship movement, a racetrack, machinery, etc.

Example Sentences

"As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways—No. 13 or No. 18."
"Ned Newton stood beside Tom in the control tower of the great tank as she started on her homeward way."
"In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York."
"The hump cabin and its relay room are at the summit of the hump on the right-hand side, and the control tower is on the centre line of the yard between the primary and secondary retarders."
"From the control tower high above the sprawling container port here, Danny Law helps manage the relentless loading and unloading of cargo, day and night."

Inflected Forms

control towers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

nontowered

Questions

What does control tower mean?: An airport building from which the air traffic control unit monitors and directs the movement of aircraft on and around the airport.

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