contract vs pyramid

contract

verb
  • To bring on; to incur; to acquire. 

  • To enter into a contract with. 

  • To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. 

  • To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. 

  • To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain. 

  • To betroth; to affiance. 

  • To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. 

  • To gain or acquire (an illness). 

  • To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. 

noun
  • An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone. 

  • An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed. 

  • An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement. 

  • The document containing such an agreement. 

  • A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts. 

  • The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump. 

pyramid

verb
  • To engage in pyramid trading. 

  • To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme. 

  • To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype. 

  • To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid. 

noun
  • A medullary pyramid, the medial-most bumps on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata 

  • A pyramid scheme. 

  • The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid. 

  • 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. 

  • An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length. 

  • A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base. 

  • A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base. 

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