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pyramid

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

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crush

English

Etymology

From Middle English cruschen (to crush, smash, squeeze, squash), from Old French croissir (to crush), from Late Latin *cruscio (to brush), from Frankish *krostjan (to crush, squeeze, squash). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, to gnash), Old Swedish krusa (to crush), Middle Low German krossen (to break), Swedish krysta (to squeeze), Danish kryste (to squash), Icelandic kreista (to squeeze, squash), Faroese kroysta (to squeeze).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k???/
  • Rhymes: -??

Noun

crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)

  1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
  3. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
    a crush at a reception
  4. A violent crowding.
  5. A crowd control barrier.
  6. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
  7. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
    I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
    1. (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
    • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
      It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
  8. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
  9. (dated) A party or festive function.
    • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1
      Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
  10. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
  11. (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
    black crush; white crush

Hyponyms

  • (infatuation): squish

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)

  1. To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.
    to crush grapes
    • 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24
      Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
  2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding
    Synonym: comminute
    to crush quartz
    • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
      With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
  3. (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
    After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
  4. (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
    They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
  5. To oppress or grievously burden.
  6. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
    The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
  7. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
    an eggshell crushes easily
  8. (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
    She's crushing on him.
  9. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
    • 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)
      He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
    • 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)
      They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
  10. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
    My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Derived terms

Synonyms

  • (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
  • (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
  • (to overwhelm) overtake
  • (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill

Translations

References

  • crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • Rusch, Schur, churs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English crush.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?k???/, /?k???/

Noun

crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)

  1. (colloquial) crush (a love interest)

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