Pylon vs Pylonlike - What's the difference?
pylon | pylonlike |
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.
Resembling a pylon or some aspect of one.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 31, author=Roberta Smith, title=Bravado That Swaggers to Its Own Beat, work=New York Times
, passage=One elaborates Surrealist curves and swellings into bright red undulating sofas and ottomans; the other, geometric, masses bright pylonlike forms and resembles the ’60s designs of Verner Panton. }}
As a noun pylon
is a gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.As an adjective pylonlike is
resembling a pylon or some aspect of one.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.}}
pylonlike
English
Adjective
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