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- a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top (同)spire
- a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump
- a horse race over an obstructed course
- someone who builds or maintains very tall structures
- a horse trained to run in steeplechases
- of a slope; set at a high angle; "note the steep incline"; "a steep roof sheds snow"
- let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol" (同)infuse
- a steep place (as on a hill)
- devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies" (同)immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up
- having a sharp inclination; "the steep attic stairs"; "steep cliffs"
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- (教会・寺院の)『尖塔』(せんとう)
- 障害物競馬,クロスカントリー競馬
- 尖塔(せんとう)(煙突)修理(塗装)工
- 『傾斜の急な』,急勾配(こうばい)の / 《話》極端な,途方もない
- (液体に)…‘を'浸す,つける《+『名』+『in』+『名』》 / (悪などに)‘を'染まらせる《+『名』+『in』+『名』》 / (液体に)浸っている《+『in』+『名』》 / 浸す(される)こと;つける液体
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Typical steeple with components
A steeple, in architecture, is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religious structure. They may be stand-alone structures, or incorporated into the entrance or center of the building.
Contents
- 1 Architectural
- 2 Threats to steeples
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Architectural
Clock towers were not a part of Christian churches until about AD 600, when they were adapted from military watchtowers. At first they were fairly modest and entirely separate structures from churches. Over time, they were incorporated into the church building and capped with ever-more-elaborate roofs until the steeple resulted. St. Martin's church steeple, in Arbon, Switzerland, is a good example of such an early church tower. Once the entry tower to the Roman fort "Arbor Felix", it today stands as a separate tower, adapted in style over many centuries, but where in 612 AD, it very likely greeted the Irish missionary Gallus as he joined the already established Christian community there.
Towers are a common element of religious architecture worldwide and are generally viewed as attempts to reach skyward toward heavens and the divine.[1] Some wooden steeples like the one in Kingston, New York pictured below are built with large wooden structural members arranged like tent poles and braced diagonally inside both with wood and steel. The steeple is then clad with wooden boards and finished with slate tiles nailed to the boards using copper over gaps on corners where the slate would not cover.
Threats to steeples
Steeples can be vulnerable to earthquakes. A number of Romanian churches feature unusually slender steeples and over half of these have been lost to earthquakes. [2] Because of their height, steeples can also be vulnerable to lightning, which can start fires within steeples. An example of this is Holy Trinity Church in Luxemburg, Iowa, which lost its steeple in a fire which was believed to be started by a lightning strike.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Is it true that church steeples are pagan in origin?"
- ^ Sofronie, R. A.; Popa, G.; Nappi, A. "Strengthening and Restoration of Eastern Churches" (PDF). UNESCO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Morrissey, Amber (2010-08-15). "Luxemburg church steeple burns down" (PDF). The Witness. The Archdiocese of Dubuque.
External links
Media related to Church towers at Wikimedia Commons
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- BMJ case reports. 2018 Jun;2018().
- An 88-year-old woman presented to our emergency room with complaints of fever, coryza, barking cough and generalised fatigue for 2 days. Physical examination showed stridor, tachypnoea with use of accessory muscles of respiration on admission. Laboratory tests were unremarkable except for monocyto
- PMID 29866674
- Steeple sign and acute laryngotracheobronchitis.
- Matsuura H, Shimanouchi Y.
- QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians. 2017 Nov;110(11)767.
- PMID 29025139
- Swept-source optical coherence tomographic findings in eyes with metastatic choroidal tumor.
- Ishida T, Morohoshi K, Takeuchi Y, Soma R, Uchida M, Ohno-Matsui K.
- American journal of ophthalmology case reports. 2017 Dec;8()44-47.
- To report the swept-source optical coherence tomographic (OCT) findings in two eyes with choroidal metastases. Two patients with choroidal metastasis were studied. The metastasis was from a breast cancer in Case 1 and from a lung cancer in Case 2. In Case 1, swept-source OCT showed a highly reflecti
- PMID 29260116
Japanese Journal
- 水島 豪太,川島 慶之,岸根 有美,竹田 貴策,得丸 貴夫,伊藤 卓,喜多村 健
- 耳鼻咽喉科臨床 107(10), 825-832, 2014
- … A coronal neck X-ray revealed a characteristic narrowing of the subglottic trachea, the steeple sign, in all cases. …
- NAID 130004697101
- Sudden Glottic Stenosis Caused by Cricoarytenoid Joint Involvement due to Rheumatoid Arthritis
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- Internal Medicine 52(21), 2469-2472, 2013
- A woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experienced glottic stenosis approximately two months after switching from etanercept to tocilizumab. Cricoarytenoid joint (CAJ) arthritis due to RA was diagnose …
- NAID 130003383683
- 一方向積層CFRP平板の圧縮による連続脆性破壊挙動とエネルギー吸収
- 上田 政人,高嶋 豊士,加藤 保之 [他],西村 哲
- 日本複合材料学会誌 = Journal of the Japan Society for Composite Materials 36(3), 104-111, 2010-05-15
- … Three types of trigger geometries, i.e. chamfer, steeple and V-shape trigger, were machined on each specimen. … It was clarified that V-shape trigger specimen was robust over the variation of gage length (unsupported length) as compared to chamfer and steeple trigger specimen which showed smaller energy absorption with longer gage length. …
- NAID 10029880442
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