Synonym: Great Pyramid, Pyramid, Pyramids of Egypt. Similar words: amid, ceramics, ramification, pyre, pyrrhic, tyrant, tyranny, at any rate. Meaning: ['pɪrəmɪd] 
n. 1. a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex 2. (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 3. a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt. v. 1. enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts 2. use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal 3. arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid 4. increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base.
n. 1. a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex 2. (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 3. a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt. v. 1. enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts 2. use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal 3. arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid 4. increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base. 
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(1) If the scheme appears to be a pyramid selling scam, have nothing to do with it.
(2) At the bottom of the pyramid are the poor.
(3) The Great Pyramid dates from around 2600 BC.
(4) A cube and a pyramid are both solids.
(5) The acrobats formed a pyramid by standing on each other's shoulders.
(6) The pyramid is 50 metres high and 100 metres round .
(7) A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower.
(8) It was a very moralistic, religious-based, money-making pyramid.
(9) Sections 118-123 deal with pyramid selling.
(10) The pyramid recommends six to 11 servings daily.
(11) Pyramid will offer its high-end Unix-based servers, which will be leased via Comdisco.
(12) Pyramid said its cash flow remained positive in the fourth quarter.
(13) A pyramid venture was started recently at one licensed dealer, every participant contributing ￡100, and bringing in more people.
(14) And when pyramid schemes began to appear in the last few years, nearly everyone caught the bug.
(15) A pyramid scheme creates the illusion of financial success by paying off early investors with funds provided by later investors.
(16) Mr Pei's pyramid in the Louvre is fine architecture, but it is nothing other than a new front door.
(17) Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch.
(18) It sits on top of a pyramid of related images of deviant women as especially evil, depraved and monstrous. Sentencedict.com
(19) On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.
(20) Hundreds of men toiled for years at building the pyramid.
(21) Traditionally, the Brahmins, or the priestly class, are set at the top of the social pyramid.
(22) By 1901, the population had grown considerably but increased use of birth control was narrowing the lower part of the pyramid.
(23) It is simple, decorated only with flat, low pilasters in brick, and has a belfry and pyramid above.
(24) They have all had much the same aim of moving away from the sharp-pointed pyramid with its traditional hierarchical approach.
(25) Dennis cut his veal assiduously into tiny squares and piled them into a pyramid that he then inhaled in a single gulp.
(26) Squatting in front of the fire door, Jess battled with a little pyramid of dried hay and sticks she had built under the copper.
(27) Six people registered in business offices at the Transamerica Pyramid, which has no residential units.
(28) He taught her a position for sleeping that placed the forepart of her brain at the apex of a pyramid.
(29) Elite theory can be visually represented by a power pyramid, as shown in Figure 10. 1.
(30) Meg has lost so much weight her bosoms look like a pair of pyramid teabags, but really this is his movie.
More similar words: amid, ceramics, ramification, pyre, pyrrhic, tyrant, tyranny, at any rate, tyrannical, mortality rate, occupancy rate, fertility rate, midget, timid, midst, humid, midday, middle, timidly, midriff, smidgen, midnight, tamil, amiss, amity, midsummer, formidable, family, famine, ram.