Used in a Sentence

pilon

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pilon.

Editorial note

Cafe Bustello or Cafe Pilon -- bottom shelf grocery store, 1lb vacuum sealed fine-ground espresso roast for $5.

Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pilon gathered in one view.

noun

A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.

noun

A surname.

noun

Initialism of payment in lieu of notice.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pilon.

noun

A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.

noun

A surname.

noun

Initialism of payment in lieu of notice.

noun

(Latin America) A conical loaf of sugar.

Example sentences

1

Cafe Bustello or Cafe Pilon -- bottom shelf grocery store, 1lb vacuum sealed fine-ground espresso roast for $5.

2

The fact that dragging anchor would have on the starboard side pulled the bow right into the pilon, the worst case.

3

I had a bad pilon fracture of my ankle a couple of years ago with both a break on Tibia and Fibia.

4

> Anspach played Monopoly in Czechoslovakia as a child, Pilon wrote.

5

There's a video (now pay-walled) from Cameron Davidson Pilon of Bayesian Methods for Hackers fame, where he takes this approach to build a basic Markov Chain model to predict patterns in his browsing.

6

There are similar warnings for sailing vessels, but because the standing rigging of the ship is usually kept in high enough tension that putting your hands on a pilon to stop a collision might leave your hands vulnerable to being cut off by a mainsail's shrouds.

Quote examples

1

When served it's a kind of battle because the thigh go first, then the sticks ("pilon"), and the breasts last.

2

Cam Davidson-Pilon's "Bayesian Methods For Hackers" is a great resource.

3

"The board game rewarded something in play that hurt people in reality," Anspach thought, according to Pilon's account.

4

I seem to remember Brad Pilon in "Eat Stop Eat" briefly mentioning the origin of the myth that your metabolism tanks rapidly if you skip a meal, but I could be wrong.

Proper noun examples

1

Many people have found success using similar methods popularized by Martin Berkhan’s Leangains or Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat.

2

Klein, Pilon, Prosser, and Shannahoff-Khalsa (1986) assessed cognitive perfor- mance during different phases of the nasal cycle.

3

Pilon, but this is par for course at any major tourist attraction, and has been for a very long time.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pilon in a sentence?

Cafe Bustello or Cafe Pilon -- bottom shelf grocery store, 1lb vacuum sealed fine-ground espresso roast for $5.

What does pilon mean?

A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.

What part of speech is pilon?

pilon is commonly used as noun.