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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pylon
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
electricity
▪ An electricity pylon was knocked over and one person was knifed.
▪ On Saturday night, an electricity pylon near the site was blown up, causing power cuts in the Disneyland hotels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A crew chief and gunner in the pockets behind them manned the two machine guns on the new pylon mounts.
▪ Each stood at the ready, one eye on the pylon, the other on my raised arm.
▪ For selection, a pylon is a minor provocation.
▪ Near the bottom, the trail swooped around the pylons of a chair lift.
▪ The skyline is dominated not by spires, but pylons.
▪ There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season, with its pylons marching up a scarred, broken hillside.
▪ They position their pylons anywhere they choose and act as though they were still the strategic industry that they were once defined as.
▪ What on earth can Mr Hague do to stop the pylons?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pylon

Pylon \Py"lon\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a gateway.]

  1. A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.

    Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front.
    --J. W. Draper.

  2. An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers). 2. A tower, commonly of steelwork, for supporting either end of a wire, as for a telegraph line, over a long span. 3. (Aeronautics)

    1. Formerly, a starting derrick (the use of which is now abandoned) for an aeroplane.

    2. A post, tower, or the like, as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pylon

1823, "gateway to an Egyptian temple," from Greek pylon "gateway," from pyle "gate, wing of a pair of double gates; an entrance, entrance into a country; mountain pass; narrow strait of water," of unknown origin. Meaning "tower for guiding aviators" (1909) led to that of "steel tower for high-tension wires" (1923).

Wiktionary
pylon

n. 1 A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple. 2 A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.

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WordNet
pylon

  1. n. a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race

  2. a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists" [syn: power pylon]

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Wikipedia
Pylon (architecture)

Pylon is the Greek term (Greek: πυλών) 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. The entrance was generally about half the height of the towers. Contemporary paintings of pylons show them with long poles flying banners.

Pylon

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Pylon (band)

Pylon is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. The band's danceable jangle pop sound influenced the Athens 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 (novel)

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. Pylon is the story of a group of barnstormers whose lives are thoroughly unconventional. They live hand-to-mouth, always just a step or two ahead of destitution, and their interpersonal relationships are unorthodox and shocking by the standards of their society and times. They meet an overwrought and extremely emotional newspaperman in New Valois, who gets deeply involved with them, with tragic consequences.

The novel provided the basis for the 1958 film The Tarnished Angels, directed by Douglas Sirk.

Pylon (album)

Pylon is the fifteenth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 23 October 2015 by record label Spinefarm and distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group.

Usage examples of "pylon".

Sayce writes: The list of places conquered by Rameses III in Palestine and Syria, which I copied on the pylon of Medinet Habu, turns out to be even more interesting than I had supposed, as a whole row of them belongs to the territory of Judah.

If Hoom spoke the truth, and if a citizen of Phaolon was secreted somewhere within the Scarlet Pylon, he could perchance lead me back to the realm of my lost princess!

Scarlet Pylon with the crystals, my mind busy with plans and conjectures, anxious, first of all, to discover if Hoom had been accurate in stating a Phaolonian prisoner was concealed in the tower.

Once he idly sketched a map of the valley in the sand with a twig, locating the river and the pylon and the community of tribe George-Eighty.

Striking a stone pylon set to his right, the man stepped upon it and repeated the process, now casting to the left, left again, right, in an apparently random pattern until he had reached the castle walls and stood under the opening of a machicolation projecting from the wall some ten feet above his head.

He knew about the flight of birds, the patterns in lightning flashes, the sounds of thunder or earth movements, numbers, fireballs, shooting stars, eclipses, obelisks, standing stones, pylons, pyramids, spheres, tumuli, obsidian, flint, sky eggs, the shape and color of flames, sacred chickens, and all the convolutions an animal intestine could produce.

It was something of an anticlimax to observe, on the right-hand side of the pylon, a smaller male figure presenting an ankhthe symbol of lifeto the nose of a seated king.

An hour later, the train halted at some crummy town: a water tower, a lithomancy pylon, a tractor depot, a straggle of houses.

The pass loomed directly before us, smooth and windswept between its jagged and malignly frowning pylons.

The Mig broke hard to the left as the Hellfire left the outboard pylon and accelerated to just under Mach 1 Manesh put the craft in a vertical climb and began dispensing flares and chaff.

These drove the big shiny grip wheels clamped on the thick ship-metal cable reaching from the Slove pylon behind them to the Scarbe pylon a kilometer across the river.

The vehicles ahead were clustered around a two-lane exit road that left the main throughway in a descending curve, flying high over the immediate surroundings and supported by slender pylons on one sideand then it stopped abruptly at a ragged edge in midair.

A line of pylons carries electric cables from the power station over at Thurrock across the water to the Kent side.

The triform symbol of the Klingon empire was missing from the warp pylons, replaced by a simple diagram of a single circling planet, or what might have been a hydrogen atom.

He had dwelt here in the Scarlet Pylon, alone with his memories amid the ruins of his people, until the coming of Sarchimus, who discovered him during a period of slumber or aestivation, when he was virtually helpless.