Word Finder - pylon

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A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.

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A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.

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A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.

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A starting derrick for an aeroplane.

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

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An obelisk.

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A traffic cone.

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An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.

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A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.

How many people are aware tho, that on the outskirts of Rochdale is a veritable Mecca for pylon enthusiasts?

In Denderah we have an example of the second group, in which the massive pylon is omitted.

In the meantime a new type of steel pylon is being erected from the power station to a point near Sheffield.

Unfortunately, some joker has decided that it would be a good idea to plant a shrubbery at the base of the pylon.

The reason is that the temple had been totally submerged under the desert except for the very top of the pylon entrance.

Electricity pylon number collectors want the right to roam.

In front of the pylon Rameses set up colossi and a pair of obelisks (one of which was taken to Paris in 1831 and re-erected in the Place de la Concorde).

At Karnak the temple had a new front added as a great pylon, which was later used as the back of the hail of columns by Seti I.

Beside other temples, now destroyed, he set up the great west pylon of Karnak, and the pylon at Kharga.

Nekhtnebf built the Hathor temple and great pylon at Philae, and the east pylon of Karnak, beside temples elsewhere, now vanished.

Karnak was largely decorated; a granite celia was built under Philip Arrhidaeus, covered with elaborate carving; a great pylon was added to the temple of Khonsu by Ptolemy III.; the inner pylon of the Ammon-temple was carved by Ptolemy VI.

The great temple of Edffl, which has its enclosure walls and pylon complete, and is the most perfect example remaining, was gradually built during a century and a half from Ptolemy III.

The satisfying crackle of power lines is sufficient to warm the heart of any pylon enthusiast during a summer downpour.

Not all people who are electricity pylon enthusiasts collect numbers.

This is the reason why electricity pylon number collecting has gained such a reputation for anarchistic or radical subversion.

Unfortunately, electricity pylon number collecting is not the only pastime popular during August.

No pylon enthusiast worth their salt would normally dream of taking measures against their allies, the anglers.

Use the first lap to see who's racing the best, then on the second lap, ram them into a wall or make them go headfirst into a pylon or something similar.

The plan of the temple may be supposed to have included a colonnaded court in front of the present facade, and pylon towers at the entrance; but these were never built, probably for lack of funds.

The Ethiopian (XXVth) dynasty built mainly in their capital under Mount Barkal, and Shabako and Tirhaka (Tahrak) also left chapels and a pylon at Thebes; and the latter added a great colonnade leading up to the temple of Karnak, of which one column is still standing.

There is usually an element of both these types in the electricity pylon number collector.