Pylon vs Piller - What's the difference?
pylon | piller |
A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.
A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (aviation) A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.
An obelisk.
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, title=The Washington Monument
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A traffic cone.
(American football) An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.
(label) A plunderer or thief.
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As nouns the difference between pylon and piller
is that pylon is pylon (traffic cone) while piller is (label) a plunderer or thief.pylon
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
citation, passage=The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true obelisk,” even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.}}
piller
English
Alternative forms
* pyllourNoun
(en noun)- Thenne he horsed his bretheren ageyne and sayd bretheren ye oughte to be ashamed to falle so of your horses / What is a Knyght but whan he is on horsbak / I sett not by a knyght whanne he is on foote / for all batails on fote ar but pelowres batails / For there shold no Knyghte syghte on foote / but yf hit were for treason / or els he were dryuen therto by force
