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English

Alternative forms

• piramis, pyramis (obsolete)

Etymology

From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin p?ramis, p?ramidis, from Ancient Greek ??????? (p?ramís), possibly from ????? (p?rós, “wheat”) + ???? (amá?, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic ????? (piram) or ???? (phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of ??????? (p?ramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic ???? although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???m?d/

Noun

pyramid (countable and uncountable, plural pyramids)

1. An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as bases for temples in Mesoamerica.
2. A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base.
3. (geometry) A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base.
4. (neuroanatomy) A medullary pyramid, the medial-most bumps on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata
5. (Britain, dated) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
6. A pyramid scheme.
7. (card games, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game)
8. (card games) The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.

9. (journalism) An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pyramid.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Ponzi scheme

Verb

pyramid (third-person singular simple present pyramids, present participle pyramiding, simple past and past participle pyramided)

1. To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid.
2. (transitive, genetics) To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype.
3. (intransitive) To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme.
4. (finance) To engage in pyramid trading.
   • 2002, Alexander Elder, Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading (page 152)

     Multiply this by the number of shares you traded, and add other positions if you pyramided.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

pyramid c

1. (geometry) pyramid
2. Pyramid-shaped construction.

Declension

Related terms

• pyramidspel

See also

• pyramidal

Welsh

Alternative forms

• puramid

Etymology

From English pyramid, from French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin p?ramis, p?ramidis, from Ancient Greek ??????? (p?ramís).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?p??ram?d/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?p?ram?d/

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in pyramid is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word puramid. Nevertheless, pyramid is the more common spelling of the two. See symbol/sumbol, synthesis/sunthesis, system/sustem for similar examples.

Noun

pyramid m (plural pyramidau)

1. pyramid

Derived terms

• pyramidaidd (“pyramidal”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “pyramid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb?- (“lump, clamp”).Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

clump (plural clumps)

1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
2. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
   • 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)

     clump of trees

3. A dull thud.
4. The compressed clay of coal strata.

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5. A small group of trees or plants.
6. (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.

Derived terms

• clumpy

Translations

to be checked

Verb

clump (third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
3. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
4. (transitive, Britain, regional) To strike; to beat.
   • 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)

     There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!

Derived terms

• clump up

Translations

References

Further reading

• Clump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)