pylonn.

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪlən/,

/ˈpʌɪlɒn/, U.S.

/ˈpaɪˌlɑn/

Forms: 1800s– pylon, 1800s– pylone (now rare).

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek πυλών.

Etymology: < ancient Greek πυλών gateway, in Hellenistic Greek also gate tower, gatehouse < πύλη gate (see -pyle comb. form) + -ών, suffix forming nouns. Compare French pylône portal of an Egyptian temple (1819), tall structure erected as a support for a cable, etc. (1888).

a. The monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple, usually formed by two truncated pyramidal towers connected by a lower section containing the gate. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > gateway or gate-tower

pylon1817

1602 Bp. M. Smith Learned Serm. Worcester 2 In a citty of Ægypt called Diospolis, in a temple there called Pylon, there was pictured a little boy, to signifie generation, and an old man to signifie corruption.]

1817 Let. 27 Sept. in C. L. Irby & J. Mangles Trav. (1823) 108 The..portico leads through the left end of the great pylon, after which there is a handsome court or hall, and then you enter the temple.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §220. 217 The principal structures begin with a pylon, that is, pyramidal double towers or wings (Strabo's ptera) which flank the gateway.

1862 F. W. Fairholt Up Nile xi. 406 A squared panel in the entry of the great pylon, records the visit of the French General Desaix, and his myrmidons, in 1799.

1893 E. A. T. W. Budge Mummy 33 The names of the places conquered by Thothmes were inscribed..on some of the pylons at Karnak.

1905 W. Sanday Crit. Fourth Gospel vi. 185 The pylon of the Fourth Gospel is of course the prologue.

1935 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 30 4 Digging at the very edge of the cultivation [at Thebes] revealed the existence of a large temple pylon.

2001 D. B. Redford Oxf. Encycl. Anc. Egypt at Pylon The pylon normally consisted of two large towers with sloping sides, connected at about mid-height by a large doorway. The shape of the pylon is believed to symbolize the horizon.

b. In extended use: any imposing tower or pillar, esp. either one of a pair marking an entrance or gateway; (more generally) any massive or weight-bearing pillar supporting a bridge, road, etc.; a pier. Usually in plural.In quot. 1851: an entrance or portal.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > parts of

pierlOE

bridge foota1450

heada1450

staddling1461

foota1500

bridge end1515

jowel1516

causey1523

starling?c1684

rib1735

spur1736

icebreaker1744

jetty1772

cutwater1776

roadway1798

sleeper1823

water-breaker1823

centrya1834

stem1835

suspension-tower1842

cantilever1850

semi-beam1850

pylon1851

half-chess1853

span1862

sway-bracing1864

needle-beam1867

ice apron1871

newel1882

flood-arch1891

needle girder1898

sway-brace1909

trough flooring1911

1851 in J. W. Barber Hist. Coll. State N. Y. 187 The lateral fronts on Leonard and Franklin streets have each two projecting pylones or porches.

1903 Daily Chron. 20 May 4/1 At each end of the bridge [over the Thames at Vauxhall], according to the design, there were two ‘pylons’.

1930 Morning Post 9 Aug. 11 200 men have been employed excavating granite for the facing of the bridge piers and pylons.

1943 Triumphs of Engin. 104/2 The imposing..pylons at either end of the arch are purely decorative and do not serve any particular engineering requirement.

1974 Sci. Amer. Nov. 145/1 The Bayonne bridge lacks the huge pylons of Sydney Harbor, which contain the thrust visually as well as in Newtonian fact.

1976 A. MacLean Golden Gate iii. 51 Three seconds later a cloud of dense grey smoke erupted between the pylons of the south tower.

1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Mag.) 21 The pylons and cables of a huge new suspension bridge for the road and railway.

2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 35/3 One of the bridge's main pylons had been badly damaged, and armored vehicles could not move over it.

2. North American.

a. A small fixed pillar or column, used to support something for display.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > signboard > [noun] > post of

signpost1711

pylon1899

1899 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. 8 (caption) This [sc. a small sculpture] will be a feature of the decoration at Lake and State streets, where it will be mounted on a pylon.

1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. 11 The naked flames of the torches will rise from specially fireproofed pylons 13 feet high.

1977 Washington Post 24 Mar. d.c. 5 Station names lettered sideways on upright pylons located along the station platforms, requiring passengers to crane their necks to read them.

2006 Smithsonian Mar. 27 After dramatically lighting a welding torch with his cigarette, he cuts through the pylon supporting the sign.

b. A small movable marker, typically in the form of an orange plastic cone, used to indicate a route for esp. vehicular traffic; = cone n.¹ 12.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track > structures on track

chicane1934

pylon1954

1954 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. ii. 21/5 A truckload of those rubber traffic pylons, an arrangement of traffic lanes and an abundant supply of policemen some busy morning on Twelfth Avenue.

1970 Pop. Mech. Oct. 106/1 A pylon was placed in the centre of the pad. Instructions were to hit the brakes as before and steer around the pylon, brakes full on!

1989 Car & Driver Oct. 142/3 The accident simulator is an area of the track's main straightaway divided into three lanes by pylons.

2003 A. Proulx Close Range (new ed.) 26 The interstate, crippled by orange pylons, forced traffic into single lanes.

c. American Football. Any of the rod-shaped vertical markers used to indicate the boundaries of the end zone.

ΚΠ

1966 Western Kansas Press 18 Jan. 6/2 Another new rule permits the use of pylons instead of flags to mark goal lines.

1983 N.Y. Times 2 Oct. v. 12/6 Hogan took the ball on the 5-yard line, and raced around..diving toward the end zone... ‘Hogan just put his nose down and dove for the pylon.’

2003 Season to Remember (Columbus Dispatch) 28/1 Doss grabbed it near the east sideline and ran a diagonal route toward the west goal line pylon.

a. A tall structure used to mark out the course round which an aircraft flies.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > structure from which aircraft launched

pylon1909

launcher1911

society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > structure marking course for aeroplanes

pylon1909

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > aircraft racing > [noun] > structure on course

pylon1909

1909 Flight 13 Mar. 143/1 The machine is brought to earth conveniently close to the pylone.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 9/3 After a successful round of the course his aeroplane came to earth near the second pylon on the south side.

1913 A. E. Berriman Aviation Pl. facing p. 38 (caption) The lower picture illustrates a similar machine banking while turning about one of the pylones at the Hendon Aerodrome.

1913 Everyday Phr. Explained 11 The modern meaning of Pylon is the erection, with flag on top, which, on aviation grounds, marks out the course, outside of which aviators must keep during competitions.

1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 32 A poor fourth on the first pylon and now coming in third on the third lap—oh oh oh, look at him take that pylon!

1977 Sci. Amer. Oct. 74/3 The craft had to..fly in a figure-eight pattern around two pylons half a mile apart.

1992 T. Will-Harris Hang Gliding & Parasailing Gloss. 41 Pylon task , a contest in which the pilots have to fly a course marked with pylons.

b. Aeronautics. Originally: a post to which wires were attached for supporting or warping the wing of an aeroplane (now historical). In later use: a pillar projecting from a wing or the fuselage to support an engine, weapon, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > structural framework > specific supporting wings

wing-bar1844

spar1866

rib1889

pylon1912

cabane1913

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > projecting supporting structure

outrigger1906

pylon1955

1912 Aero Aug. 236/1 The machine bears..a resemblance to a torpedo boat on account of its squat ‘funnels’, which are..the..pylons carrying the wing bracing wires.

1919 A. J. S. Pippard & J. L. Pritchard Aeroplane Struct. xi. 142 The vertical components of the loads in the pylon wires AD, CD throw an extra load in the interplane strut BE.

1955 R. N. Liptrot & J. D. Woods Rotorcraft iii. 20 The rear-end ring [of the fuselage] carries the pylon on which is mounted the tail rotor.

1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 106/1 As flown for the first time at Issy on 23 January 1909,..a small kite-shaped fin was fixed above the wing-warping pylons.

1979 Daily Tel. 29 May 1/4 The airline said it believes the attachments of the engine pylon to the wings of its aircraft are sound.

1993 Washington Post 18 June a26/3 The plane's four engines are attached to struts, or pylons, that in turn are attached to the wing.

4. Surgery. A simple, typically unjointed, prosthesis for the leg; (also) the part of a lower limb prosthesis extending between the artificial foot and the socket receiving the stump.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg

leg1574

wooden leg1582

stump1679

peg leg1769

timber-toe1785

peg1826

tram1836

jury-leg1850

pylon1919

1919 Lancet 9 Aug. 268/1 A man with an artificial limb coming home from his daily occupation will be glad to change it for a light fibre pylon.

1945 A. Thomas & C. C. Haddan Amputation Prosthesis ii. 49 It is the opinion of many that the most effective and rapid shrinkage and adaptation of the stump takes place with the use of a pylon or a temporary prosthesis.

1971 P. J. R. Nichols Rehabil. Severely Disabled II. iii. 107 Many elderly patients fitted with a satisfactory pylon are reluctant to exchange it for a definitive limb, which is heavier and ‘more difficult’ to use.

2000 Jrnl. Rehabilit. Res. & Devel. 37 405 The prosthesis is comprised of an aluminum pylon, a cosmetic cover, and a constant cross-section composite foot into which aluminum supports are screwed to increase load-bearing capacity.

5. A tall tower-like structure erected as a support for a cable, etc.; spec. (now the principal use) a latticework metal tower for carrying overhead electricity lines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > distribution system > [noun] > pylon

pylon1923

tower1930

the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake > supporting power lines > pylon supporting power lines

pylon1923

1923 E. Shanks Richest Man iii. 52 Half a mile up the mountain, a cable, a thin black line, traversed the crystal air, borne up on pylons.

1930 W. H. Auden Poems 67 Pylons fallen or subsiding, trailing dead high-tension wires.

1942 J. Lees-Milne Ancestral Voices (1975) 51 This unconfined Thames estuary is rather exciting, sprinkled as it is with drifting pylons, factory chimneys and distant gasometers.

1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 67 Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul.

1977 Times 19 Jan. 14/2 The North-Western Electricity Board were understandably forbidden to string wires on overhead pylons up the valley.

1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xiii. 169 The panorama before me incorporated electricity pylons, scattered housing estates and the distant sunny glints of cash and carry warehouses.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

pylon brow n.

ΚΠ

1890 H. R. Haggard & A. Lang World's Desire ii. i There on the pylon brow stood..Hathor's self.

pylon gate n.

ΚΠ

1875 Atlantic Monthly July 11/2 Here on a pylon gate General Dessaix has recorded the fact that, [etc.].

1925 Times 11 Mar. 13/4 From a forecourt flanked by small chambers a pylon gate gave access to the entrance-chamber or pronaos.

1992 SkiTrax Dec. 5/1 Races were run in head-to-head elimination format and courses featured pylon gates, ramps and jumps.

pylon tower n.

ΚΠ

1856 Harper's Mag. Dec. 38/1 The cartouches here..are not less than five feet in length on the pylon tower.

1889 H. R. Haggard Cleopatra i. iv. 42 Then I bethought me of my prayer upon the pylon tower of Abouthis.

2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 18 May The completed 150m bridge with sweeping approach ramps will be supported by cables running off a 25m-high central pylon tower akin to a giant maypole.

pylon-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile i. xii. 334 His [sc. Osiris's] legs and feet lie at full length in a pylon-shaped mausoleum.

1893 Helps to Bible Study (rev. ed.) p. xxii (caption) A sepuchral barge containing a decorated shrine or canopy, pylon-shaped, in which the mummy is laid.

1948 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 12 May 7/3 They clambered up a steel ladder to the peak of the pylon-shaped girder structure.

2002 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 61 85 The characteristic pylon-shaped upper section can also be seen.

C2. attributive (usually with capital initial). Designating or relating to (the work of) those poets of the 1930s (chiefly W. H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender) who used industrial scenes and imagery as themes of their poetry.After Spender's poem ‘The Pylons’, published in 1933.

ΚΠ

1935 H. A. Mason in Scrutiny III. 405 In Vienna Spender appears very clumsily dressed in the robes of Eliot (chiefly Ash Wednesday) the ‘pylon’ imagery and possible other borrowed garments.]

1946 C. Connolly Condemned Playground 51 By temporarily killing the place-name lyric, his effect was to render more severe and guarded the new poetry of the Pylon school.

1951 H. Sergeant Tradition in Making of Mod. Poetry I. iii. 44 His [sc. Wilfrid Gibson's] method of recording factual details of the industrial background to many of his poems furnishes a parallel with that of the ‘pylon’ school of the thirties.

1957 R. Hoggart Auden 14 His first links were made with others who were to become writers and publicists in what has variously been called the Thirties Group, the Pylon School and the Auden Group.

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 924/2 The trouble with most of the ‘Pylon Poets’—with the honourable exception of W. H. Auden—is that to them industry was still too much of a new thing.

1961 Listener 24 Aug. 284/1 After Eliot..there appeared Auden and Spender and the ‘pylon’ school of the nineteen-thirties.

1973 Commentary Dec. 53/2 After the withering of 30's illusions it became fashionable to laugh at ‘Pylon’ poetry.

1990 R. Crawford About Edwin Morgan 29 The contaminated idealism of the 1930s and the naïvetés of pylon poetry.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pylon
释义	pylonn. Brit. /ˈpʌɪlən/, /ˈpʌɪlɒn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪˌlɑn/ Forms: 1800s– pylon, 1800s– pylone (now rare). Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek πυλών. Etymology: < ancient Greek πυλών gateway, in Hellenistic Greek also gate tower, gatehouse < πύλη gate (see -pyle comb. form) + -ών, suffix forming nouns. Compare French pylône portal of an Egyptian temple (1819), tall structure erected as a support for a cable, etc. (1888). 1. a. The monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple, usually formed by two truncated pyramidal towers connected by a lower section containing the gate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > gateway or gate-tower pylon1817 1602 Bp. M. Smith Learned Serm. Worcester 2 In a citty of Ægypt called Diospolis, in a temple there called Pylon, there was pictured a little boy, to signifie generation, and an old man to signifie corruption.] 1817 Let. 27 Sept. in C. L. Irby & J. Mangles Trav. (1823) 108 The..portico leads through the left end of the great pylon, after which there is a handsome court or hall, and then you enter the temple. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §220. 217 The principal structures begin with a pylon, that is, pyramidal double towers or wings (Strabo's ptera) which flank the gateway. 1862 F. W. Fairholt Up Nile xi. 406 A squared panel in the entry of the great pylon, records the visit of the French General Desaix, and his myrmidons, in 1799. 1893 E. A. T. W. Budge Mummy 33 The names of the places conquered by Thothmes were inscribed..on some of the pylons at Karnak. 1905 W. Sanday Crit. Fourth Gospel vi. 185 The pylon of the Fourth Gospel is of course the prologue. 1935 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 30 4 Digging at the very edge of the cultivation [at Thebes] revealed the existence of a large temple pylon. 2001 D. B. Redford Oxf. Encycl. Anc. Egypt at Pylon The pylon normally consisted of two large towers with sloping sides, connected at about mid-height by a large doorway. The shape of the pylon is believed to symbolize the horizon. b. In extended use: any imposing tower or pillar, esp. either one of a pair marking an entrance or gateway; (more generally) any massive or weight-bearing pillar supporting a bridge, road, etc.; a pier. Usually in plural.In quot. 1851: an entrance or portal. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > parts of pierlOE bridge foota1450 heada1450 staddling1461 foota1500 bridge end1515 jowel1516 causey1523 starling?c1684 rib1735 spur1736 icebreaker1744 jetty1772 cutwater1776 roadway1798 sleeper1823 water-breaker1823 centrya1834 stem1835 suspension-tower1842 cantilever1850 semi-beam1850 pylon1851 half-chess1853 span1862 sway-bracing1864 needle-beam1867 ice apron1871 newel1882 flood-arch1891 needle girder1898 sway-brace1909 trough flooring1911 1851 in J. W. Barber Hist. Coll. State N. Y. 187 The lateral fronts on Leonard and Franklin streets have each two projecting pylones or porches. 1903 Daily Chron. 20 May 4/1 At each end of the bridge [over the Thames at Vauxhall], according to the design, there were two ‘pylons’. 1930 Morning Post 9 Aug. 11 200 men have been employed excavating granite for the facing of the bridge piers and pylons. 1943 Triumphs of Engin. 104/2 The imposing..pylons at either end of the arch are purely decorative and do not serve any particular engineering requirement. 1974 Sci. Amer. Nov. 145/1 The Bayonne bridge lacks the huge pylons of Sydney Harbor, which contain the thrust visually as well as in Newtonian fact. 1976 A. MacLean Golden Gate iii. 51 Three seconds later a cloud of dense grey smoke erupted between the pylons of the south tower. 1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Mag.) 21 The pylons and cables of a huge new suspension bridge for the road and railway. 2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 35/3 One of the bridge's main pylons had been badly damaged, and armored vehicles could not move over it. 2. North American. a. A small fixed pillar or column, used to support something for display. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > signboard > [noun] > post of signpost1711 pylon1899 1899 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. 8 (caption) This [sc. a small sculpture] will be a feature of the decoration at Lake and State streets, where it will be mounted on a pylon. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. 11 The naked flames of the torches will rise from specially fireproofed pylons 13 feet high. 1977 Washington Post 24 Mar. d.c. 5 Station names lettered sideways on upright pylons located along the station platforms, requiring passengers to crane their necks to read them. 2006 Smithsonian Mar. 27 After dramatically lighting a welding torch with his cigarette, he cuts through the pylon supporting the sign. b. A small movable marker, typically in the form of an orange plastic cone, used to indicate a route for esp. vehicular traffic; = cone n.¹ 12. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track > structures on track chicane1934 pylon1954 1954 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. ii. 21/5 A truckload of those rubber traffic pylons, an arrangement of traffic lanes and an abundant supply of policemen some busy morning on Twelfth Avenue. 1970 Pop. Mech. Oct. 106/1 A pylon was placed in the centre of the pad. Instructions were to hit the brakes as before and steer around the pylon, brakes full on! 1989 Car & Driver Oct. 142/3 The accident simulator is an area of the track's main straightaway divided into three lanes by pylons. 2003 A. Proulx Close Range (new ed.) 26 The interstate, crippled by orange pylons, forced traffic into single lanes. c. American Football. Any of the rod-shaped vertical markers used to indicate the boundaries of the end zone. ΚΠ 1966 Western Kansas Press 18 Jan. 6/2 Another new rule permits the use of pylons instead of flags to mark goal lines. 1983 N.Y. Times 2 Oct. v. 12/6 Hogan took the ball on the 5-yard line, and raced around..diving toward the end zone... ‘Hogan just put his nose down and dove for the pylon.’ 2003 Season to Remember (Columbus Dispatch) 28/1 Doss grabbed it near the east sideline and ran a diagonal route toward the west goal line pylon. 3. a. A tall structure used to mark out the course round which an aircraft flies. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > structure from which aircraft launched pylon1909 launcher1911 society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > structure marking course for aeroplanes pylon1909 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > aircraft racing > [noun] > structure on course pylon1909 1909 Flight 13 Mar. 143/1 The machine is brought to earth conveniently close to the pylone. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 9/3 After a successful round of the course his aeroplane came to earth near the second pylon on the south side. 1913 A. E. Berriman Aviation Pl. facing p. 38 (caption) The lower picture illustrates a similar machine banking while turning about one of the pylones at the Hendon Aerodrome. 1913 Everyday Phr. Explained 11 The modern meaning of Pylon is the erection, with flag on top, which, on aviation grounds, marks out the course, outside of which aviators must keep during competitions. 1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 32 A poor fourth on the first pylon and now coming in third on the third lap—oh oh oh, look at him take that pylon! 1977 Sci. Amer. Oct. 74/3 The craft had to..fly in a figure-eight pattern around two pylons half a mile apart. 1992 T. Will-Harris Hang Gliding & Parasailing Gloss. 41 Pylon task , a contest in which the pilots have to fly a course marked with pylons. b. Aeronautics. Originally: a post to which wires were attached for supporting or warping the wing of an aeroplane (now historical). In later use: a pillar projecting from a wing or the fuselage to support an engine, weapon, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > structural framework > specific supporting wings wing-bar1844 spar1866 rib1889 pylon1912 cabane1913 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > projecting supporting structure outrigger1906 pylon1955 1912 Aero Aug. 236/1 The machine bears..a resemblance to a torpedo boat on account of its squat ‘funnels’, which are..the..pylons carrying the wing bracing wires. 1919 A. J. S. Pippard & J. L. Pritchard Aeroplane Struct. xi. 142 The vertical components of the loads in the pylon wires AD, CD throw an extra load in the interplane strut BE. 1955 R. N. Liptrot & J. D. Woods Rotorcraft iii. 20 The rear-end ring [of the fuselage] carries the pylon on which is mounted the tail rotor. 1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 106/1 As flown for the first time at Issy on 23 January 1909,..a small kite-shaped fin was fixed above the wing-warping pylons. 1979 Daily Tel. 29 May 1/4 The airline said it believes the attachments of the engine pylon to the wings of its aircraft are sound. 1993 Washington Post 18 June a26/3 The plane's four engines are attached to struts, or pylons, that in turn are attached to the wing. 4. Surgery. A simple, typically unjointed, prosthesis for the leg; (also) the part of a lower limb prosthesis extending between the artificial foot and the socket receiving the stump. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg leg1574 wooden leg1582 stump1679 peg leg1769 timber-toe1785 peg1826 tram1836 jury-leg1850 pylon1919 1919 Lancet 9 Aug. 268/1 A man with an artificial limb coming home from his daily occupation will be glad to change it for a light fibre pylon. 1945 A. Thomas & C. C. Haddan Amputation Prosthesis ii. 49 It is the opinion of many that the most effective and rapid shrinkage and adaptation of the stump takes place with the use of a pylon or a temporary prosthesis. 1971 P. J. R. Nichols Rehabil. Severely Disabled II. iii. 107 Many elderly patients fitted with a satisfactory pylon are reluctant to exchange it for a definitive limb, which is heavier and ‘more difficult’ to use. 2000 Jrnl. Rehabilit. Res. & Devel. 37 405 The prosthesis is comprised of an aluminum pylon, a cosmetic cover, and a constant cross-section composite foot into which aluminum supports are screwed to increase load-bearing capacity. 5. A tall tower-like structure erected as a support for a cable, etc.; spec. (now the principal use) a latticework metal tower for carrying overhead electricity lines. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > distribution system > [noun] > pylon pylon1923 tower1930 the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake > supporting power lines > pylon supporting power lines pylon1923 1923 E. Shanks Richest Man iii. 52 Half a mile up the mountain, a cable, a thin black line, traversed the crystal air, borne up on pylons. 1930 W. H. Auden Poems 67 Pylons fallen or subsiding, trailing dead high-tension wires. 1942 J. Lees-Milne Ancestral Voices (1975) 51 This unconfined Thames estuary is rather exciting, sprinkled as it is with drifting pylons, factory chimneys and distant gasometers. 1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 67 Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul. 1977 Times 19 Jan. 14/2 The North-Western Electricity Board were understandably forbidden to string wires on overhead pylons up the valley. 1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xiii. 169 The panorama before me incorporated electricity pylons, scattered housing estates and the distant sunny glints of cash and carry warehouses. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. pylon brow n. ΚΠ 1890 H. R. Haggard & A. Lang World's Desire ii. i There on the pylon brow stood..Hathor's self. pylon gate n. ΚΠ 1875 Atlantic Monthly July 11/2 Here on a pylon gate General Dessaix has recorded the fact that, [etc.]. 1925 Times 11 Mar. 13/4 From a forecourt flanked by small chambers a pylon gate gave access to the entrance-chamber or pronaos. 1992 SkiTrax Dec. 5/1 Races were run in head-to-head elimination format and courses featured pylon gates, ramps and jumps. pylon tower n. ΚΠ 1856 Harper's Mag. Dec. 38/1 The cartouches here..are not less than five feet in length on the pylon tower. 1889 H. R. Haggard Cleopatra i. iv. 42 Then I bethought me of my prayer upon the pylon tower of Abouthis. 2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 18 May The completed 150m bridge with sweeping approach ramps will be supported by cables running off a 25m-high central pylon tower akin to a giant maypole. b. pylon-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile i. xii. 334 His [sc. Osiris's] legs and feet lie at full length in a pylon-shaped mausoleum. 1893 Helps to Bible Study (rev. ed.) p. xxii (caption) A sepuchral barge containing a decorated shrine or canopy, pylon-shaped, in which the mummy is laid. 1948 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 12 May 7/3 They clambered up a steel ladder to the peak of the pylon-shaped girder structure. 2002 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 61 85 The characteristic pylon-shaped upper section can also be seen. C2. attributive (usually with capital initial). Designating or relating to (the work of) those poets of the 1930s (chiefly W. H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender) who used industrial scenes and imagery as themes of their poetry.After Spender's poem ‘The Pylons’, published in 1933. ΚΠ 1935 H. A. Mason in Scrutiny III. 405 In Vienna Spender appears very clumsily dressed in the robes of Eliot (chiefly Ash Wednesday) the ‘pylon’ imagery and possible other borrowed garments.] 1946 C. Connolly Condemned Playground 51 By temporarily killing the place-name lyric, his effect was to render more severe and guarded the new poetry of the Pylon school. 1951 H. Sergeant Tradition in Making of Mod. Poetry I. iii. 44 His [sc. Wilfrid Gibson's] method of recording factual details of the industrial background to many of his poems furnishes a parallel with that of the ‘pylon’ school of the thirties. 1957 R. Hoggart Auden 14 His first links were made with others who were to become writers and publicists in what has variously been called the Thirties Group, the Pylon School and the Auden Group. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 924/2 The trouble with most of the ‘Pylon Poets’—with the honourable exception of W. H. Auden—is that to them industry was still too much of a new thing. 1961 Listener 24 Aug. 284/1 After Eliot..there appeared Auden and Spender and the ‘pylon’ school of the nineteen-thirties. 1973 Commentary Dec. 53/2 After the withering of 30's illusions it became fashionable to laugh at ‘Pylon’ poetry. 1990 R. Crawford About Edwin Morgan 29 The contaminated idealism of the 1930s and the naïvetés of pylon poetry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1817
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