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pylon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | power pylon |
| Type of | tower |
power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists.
pylon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | tower |
Examples of pylon
pylon
A procession of sphinxes continues from the third pylon towards the solar court.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Smith connected with Williams on a route to the near pylon in the third quarter.
From the suntimes.com
Cherry picked it up, headed for the left pylon and ran in a two-point conversion.
From the kansas.com
On another, he dove from the 3-yard line and clipped the pylon for a touchdown.
From the omaha.com
Overhead a pylon hummed as it stretched back towards the city they had come from.
From the nytimes.com
With the Brockton defense on his tail, he lofted a pass toward the right pylon.
From the boston.com
Pylon failure could cause an engine to fall from the wing where it is attached.
From the bloomberg.com
It was said to allow the passer-by to look through, rather than at, the pylon.
From the bbc.co.uk
Photographers and pylon-spotters appreciate the geometry of the lattice structure.
From the bbc.co.uk
- A tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
- A large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists"
- Pylon is the Greek term for a monumental gateway of an Egyptian temple (Egyptian bxn.t in the Manuel de Codage transliteration.) It consists of two tapering towers, each surmounted by a cornice, joined by a less elevated section which enclosed the entrance between them. ...
- Pylon is a rock band from Athens, Georgia, USA. The band's danceable jangle pop sound influenced the Athens, Georgia music scene and the 1980s American pop underground. Allmusic wrote that Pylon's "role as elder statesmen of the alternative rock explosion is unassailable". ...
- Pylon is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. Published in 1935, Pylon is set in New Valois, a fictionalized version of New Orleans. It is one of Faulkner's few novels set outside Yoknapatawpha County, his favorite fictional setting, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi. ...
- Blizzard Entertainment's bestselling real-time strategy game series StarCraft revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector. ...
- Pylons is an open source web application framework written in Python. It makes extensive use of the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote reusability and to separate functionality into distinct modules. ...
- A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple; A tower like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high voltage electricity cables; A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage; An obelisk; A traffic cone
- (Pylons) A lightweight Python web framework.
