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UK
/pˈɪɹɐmˌɪd/
]
[ US /ˈpɪɹəmɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪɹəmɪd/ ]
VERB
- increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base
- use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
- enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
- arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
NOUN
- (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
- a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
How To Use pyramid In A Sentence
- ; Pyramid of Khafre (left), 2558-2532 B.C.; and Pyramid of Khufu (right), 2580-2560 B.C., Archaeology as Modern Art?
- That mountain, running with springs, is basically pyramidal and shaped and notched in the center.
- See pyramid of numbers, pyramid of biomass. Biology Basic Facts
- This model is known as the hierarchy of needs and is shaped like a pyramid. Business Studies Basic Facts
- Whoever built the Great Pyramid had access to some information outside of that which earthlings had at the time, at least earthlings as we know them.
- Corticospinal and corticobulbar fibers descend in large bundles at this level, destined for the pyramids of the medulla oblongata.
- I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the decaying Pyramids of kings, which cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain nor wild north wind, or by the unnumbered procession of the years and flight of time.
- How were ancient peoples able to construct monumental Egyptian pyramids in an age devoid of the tools of modern technology?
- And there is in Egypt another form of pyramid called the mastaba, which, like the Mexican, was flattened on the top; while in Assyria structures flattened like the Mexican are found. Atlantis : the antediluvian world
- You can see the pyramid, you can see the dark, gray skies.