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Pyramid   /pˈɪrəmɪd/   Listen
Pyramid

noun
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.  Synonyms: Great Pyramid, Pyramids of Egypt.
verb
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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"Pyramid" Quotes from Famous Books



... stack of breakfast foods where he could watch her, wondering that the clerks did not drop their several customers without ceremony and fly to do her bidding. She stood beside the counter and made overtures to a large Maltese cat who reposed there in solemn majesty. Beside the Maltese rose a pyramid of canned goods, and a placard announced, "Of interest to light house keepers." Upon this her eyes rested in evident surprise. "I didn't know there were any lighthouses in this part of the country," she said ...
— The Little Red Chimney - Being the Love Story of a Candy Man • Mary Finley Leonard
... enough for us," Beppo remarked. "Perhaps Carlo Alberto will beat them this time. If he does, viva to him! If they beat him, down goes another Venetian pyramid. The ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... cemetery within the now torn and shattered Aurelian wall by the Porta San Paolo, they are often mowing of buttercups. "A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread," says Shelley, whose child lies between Keats and the pyramid. But a couple of active scythes are kept at work there summer and spring—not that the grass is long, for it is much overtopped by the bee-orchis, but because flowers are not to laugh within reach of the ...
— Essays • Alice Meynell
... in the hall from Sarakoff asking me to come round to the Pyramid Restaurant at eight o'clock to meet a friend of his. It was a crisp clear evening, and I decided to walk. There were two problems on my mind. One was the outlook of Sarakoff, which even I deemed to be too materialistic. The other ...
— The Blue Germ • Martin Swayne
... Bois-Rose had quitted the spot where the preceding scenes had so rapidly taken place. They had reached the base of the pyramid. It was there that the solemn assizes were to be held, in which Fabian and the Duke de Armada were about to act the ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid


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