Word Finder - pylons

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A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.

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A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.

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A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.

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A starting derrick for an aeroplane.

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A post, tower, etc. as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.

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An obelisk.

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A traffic cone.

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An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.

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A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.

There should be a law against treating pylons with such irreverence.

Her defeat was a blow to all who object to the giant pylons.

They explain that magnetism generally attracts particles into the atmosphere, drawing them into the area around the pylons.

The start marked by a crane supported banner only one third the height of the proposed pylons.

Work is already under way to remove 40 pylons in east London and put the cables underground.

We had to turn the lights on in a house, by building pylons to move the power along.

Much of the land is fragmented, polluted and divided by waterways, overhead pylons, roads and railways.

Dominating the skyline are two huge pylons which carry the National Grid across the river.

It is mounted in the underwing pylons provided by DLR upon request.

The ground also benefits from having some striking floodlight pylons at each corner of the ground.

Do not let your child fly a kite near electricity pylons.

The Eagle can carry up to 4 of these on the wing pylons.

He has a story to tell about pylons erected at night in Tuscany to avoid protest !

Electric pylons for carrying cables across navigable rivers are among the tallest structures in the country.

He embellished the walls and pylons of his court with scenes from his victories over Hittites and Syrians, and placed a number of colossal statues within it.

Euergetes in 237 B.C., was finished by his successor in 212; the portico, court, pylons and surrounding wall were added by Ptolemy Euergetes II., Soter II.

These two kings built the great columnar hall of Karnak, added a large court with pylons to Luxor, and on the west bank built the funerary temple of Seti at Kurna, and the Ramesseum with its gigantic colossus, besides other edifices of which only traces remain.

A small gateway between two massive towers or pylons gave admittance to a spacious forecourt open to the sky, into which the people were allowed to enter at least on feast days.

Farther on, separated from the forecourt by smaller though still massive pylons, lay a hypostyle hall, so called from its covered colonnades; this hall was used for all kinds of processions.

The great temple of Karnak had existed since the XIth Dynasty or earlier, but the existing structure was begun under Tethmosis (Tahutmes) I., and two of the great pylons and one obelisk of his remain in place.

Harmahib (Horemheb) resumed the work at Karnak, erecting two great pylons and a long avenue of sphinxes.

His son Amenophis III., C. 1400 u.c., was a mighty builder, especially at Thebes, where his reign marks a new epoch in the history of the great temples, Luxor being his creation, while avenues of rams, pylons, &c., were added on a vast scale to Karnak.