pylon 的定义
- a marking post or tower for guiding aviators, frequently used in races.
- a relatively tall structure at the side of a gate, bridge, or avenue, marking an entrance or approach.
- a monumental tower forming the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple, consisting either of a pair of tall quadrilateral masonry masses with sloping sides and a doorway between them or of one such mass pierced with a doorway.
- a steel tower or mast carrying high-tension lines, telephone wires, or other cables and lines.
- Aeronautics. a finlike device used to attach engines, auxiliary fuel tanks, bombs, etc., to an aircraft wing or fuselage.
pylon 近义词
等同于 gateway
等同于 obelisk
等同于 column
更多pylon例句
- He caught another five-yarder that he carted inside the right pylon after a presnap bit of candy during which he motioned right, then motioned left behind the offensive line, then motioned back right to catch the quick pass.
- Boone went wide to the left, reached toward the goal line and touched the football to the pylon before falling out of bounds and losing possession of the ball.
- The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.
- The largest still existing is the outer pylon of the great temple of Karnak.
- This moulding bounds all the flat surfaces of the pylon, which are, moreover, covered with bas-reliefs and paintings.
- From the base of the pylon spring those vertical masts from whose summits many coloured streamers flutter in the sun.
- Obelisks and colossal statues seem to have been peculiarly necessary outside the first, or outer, pylon of a temple.