pyramid
Speech parts
1. pyramid - Noun
2. pyramid - Verb
3. Pyramid - Proper noun
Meaning
A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.
A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.
The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
The top of the Great Pyramid [..... ] there's no capstone on the pyramid. Till the year 2000 celebrations when George Bush [Snr. ] and some of these guys put a phony one up there. See, they think they are going to have a new world order, and they probably are.