Dictionary Entry
pyramid
pyramid is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.
- 2noun
A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.
- 3noun
The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
- 4noun
a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
- 5noun
(stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases
- 6noun
a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
- 7verb
increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base
- 8verb
arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
- 9verb
use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
- 10verb
enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
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