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/ˈpirəˌmid/,
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pyramids, plural;
  1. Heap or stack in the shape of a pyramid
    • - debt was pyramided on top of unrealistic debt in an orgy of speculation
  2. Achieve a substantial return on (money or property) after making a small initial investment

Noun
  1. A monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, esp. one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt

  2. A thing, shape, or graph with such a form
    • - the pyramid of the Matterhorn
  3. A polyhedron of which one face is a polygon of any number of sides, and the other faces are triangles with a common vertex
    • - a three-sided pyramid
  4. A pile of things with such a form
    • - a pyramid of logs
  5. A structure of more or less pyramidal form, esp. in the brain or the renal medulla

  6. An organization or system that is structured with fewer people or things at each level as one approaches the top
    • - the lowest strata of the social pyramid
  7. A system of financial growth achieved by a small initial investment, with subsequent investments being funded by using unrealized profits as collateral

  1. a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
  2. enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
  3. (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases
  4. use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
  5. a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
  6. arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
  7. A pyramid (from Greek "πυραμίς" - pyramis) is a structure where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge at a point. ...
  8. Pyramid is a progressive rock album by The Alan Parsons Project. It was released in 1978. At the time the album was conceived, interest in pyramid power was very high. The album contains numerous references to the Egyptian pyramids. ...
  9. Pyramid is an Australian children's quiz show screening on the Nine Network hosted by Shura Taft. It is co-produced by Sydney-based Ambience Entertainment. It began broadcasting on 1 September 2009 and is filmed in front of a live studio audience. ...
  10. Pyramid is an American experimental, indie-rock band from North Carolina. Music from their self-released album, "The First American", was used in two David Gordon Green films, All the Real Girls and Undertow. ...
  11. The anterior or ventral portion of the medulla oblongata is named the pyramid and lies between the anterior median fissure and the antero-lateral sulcus.
  12. Pyramid is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1974 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Hal Galper, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest appearances by Phil Upchurch, George Duke, and Jimmy ...
  13. (Pyramids) Temple I · Temple II · Temple III · Temple IV · Temple V
  14. (Pyramids) ancient places of power
  15. (Pyramids) are subobjects of a GeoRaster object that represent the raster image or raster data at differing sizes and degrees of resolution. The size is usually related to the amount of time that an application needs to retrieve and display an image, particularly over the Web. ...
  16. (Pyramids) did not stand alone but were part of a group of buildings which included temples, chapels, other tombs, and massive walls.
  17. (pyramids) Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs. (p. 40)
  18. (pyramids) The fiber bundles consisting of descending axons from the primary motor cortex. radial glial cell. A glial cell that extends from the ventricular zone to the marginal zone during early neural development. ...
  19. To dream of pyramids, denotes that many changes will come to you. If you scale them, you will journey along before you find the gratification of desires. For the young woman, it prognosticates a husband who is in no sense congenial. ...
  20. Pyramids were four-sided structures that generally tapered to a point at the top. They were built of stone or mud brick to house the remains of the Egyptian king. Small ones sometimes were provided for queens. Pyramids were used by kings in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. ...
  21. A sharply tapered cigar with a wide, open foot and a closed head.
  22. A pyramid is a 3-dimensional (solid) figure that has a polygon for a base and has a single vertex that is not in the plane of the polygon base. The Egyptian pyramids have square bases and triangular sides, meeting at the top, the vertex.
  23. A training technique designed to build strength and endurance, during which the coxswain calls an increasing cadence of power strokes (Power 10, Power 20, etc.), each separated by a cadence of normal strokes, and followed by a decreasing cadence of power strokes.
  24. A three-dimensional shape with one polygonal base and lateral sides that are all triangles that meet at a vertex opposite the base.
  25. prominent column of white matter on the ventromedial margin of the medulla containing axons of the corticospinal tract