(n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
(n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
Example Sentences:
(1) Strain gauges applied to the pylon of a modular prosthesis and incorporated in an appropriate electrical circuit provide measurements of axial load which are displayed on an oscilloscope during ambulation.
(2) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(3) There's no doubting that Sherman has done a lot for the cornerback position and the NFL - people that wouldn't know a pylon from a hole in the wall are now talking about the greatest cornerback in the history of mankind aside every water cooler from Omaha to Maputo.
(4) The attachment of a pylon and prosthetic foot to a postoperative rigid dressing can be beneficial in the management of a below-the-knee amputation.
(5) In the right light and with the right song playing on the radio, there is a certain melancholy charm to this bleak highway with its unfolding panorama of wind turbines and electricity pylons stretching to the horizon.
(6) As well as the 400,000-volt line, the mid-Wales project includes what campaigners fear will be "a spider's web" of 26-metre pylons – well above the tree line – to link the windfarms to the new substation.
(7) It would also have been far easier to block the proposed pylons had the region been designated an area of outstanding beauty, which was proposed decades ago but was opposed by farmers who feared the effect on their businesses.
(8) The villages, whose populations range from a few hundred to 2,000, are scattered on stony land criss-crossed by busy roads, electricity pylons and cables and water pipes.
(9) On the streets close to the cattle market – nicknamed Tahrir Square on account of the anti-pylon protests – I could not find a single person who even grudgingly accepted the need for pylons and windfarms.
(10) Although cosmesis is compromised in the process, these short nonarticulated pylon prostheses may be a viable option to consider in bilateral A-K or knee disarticulation amputee patients under the following circumstances: (1) as a training tool to determine whether progression to full-length articulated devices is feasible; (2) as permanent prostheses for the patient whose primary need for ambulation is within his own home; (3) for the elderly bilateral amputee in whom ambulation is feasible but safety and energy efficiency are of particular importance; and (4) as a definitive device in the patient who expresses a preference for them.
(11) The Flex-Foot incorporates a pylon and foot in one unit and requires special fabrication technologies.
(12) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(13) The key problem is the huge communal nests built by the monk parakeets as these can cause blackouts when built on pylons and then drenched by rain.
(14) The technique of rigid plaster dressing followed by delayed application of a plaster cast and pylon was not detrimental to wound healing and did not increase the interval between surgery and the use of the prosthesis, nor did it depress the eventual level of function.
(15) Many of the new pylons will be more hidden and further from homes.
(16) Vince’s first experiments in wind power began at Glastonbury festival where he fixed a windmill to a pylon and charged mobile phone batteries.
(17) Yet, in an argument set to rise further in intensity as the UK's tough carbon targets loom, critics insist that new wave of power projects will scar the British landscape with bigger pylons, and make it far easier to build windfarms in unsuitable places.
(18) The analyses indicate that either a shaped, marrow cavity-fit pylon or four 135 degree wedges with a complementary pylon are favorable geometries for a DSA system.
(19) Ninety-four per cent of these patients were rehabilitated to walking independently on a pylon or prosthesis.
(20) After several hours' climb, passing ice-blue lakes and summery plains, we are faced with a bizarre moonscape, JCBs and pylons on the plateau that links the resorts.