pillar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
architecture
bodybuilding
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Inflected forms:
form: pillars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pillars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pillaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pillared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pillared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
pos: noun
gloss: Something resembling such a structure.
pos: noun
examples: a pillar of smoke
gloss: An essential part of something that provides support.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: He's a pillar of the community.
In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.
gloss: A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
pos: noun
examples: two laye-men secular
eache of theym holdynge a pillar
In their hondes, steade of a mace
gloss: The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
pos: noun
gloss: The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
pos: noun
gloss: To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth
We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.
It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region.
Synonyms: column
sile
Derived words: A-pillar
B-pillar
C-pillar
D-pillar
bepillared
bundle pillar
depillar
earth pillar
pillar to post
post to pillar
hydropillar
ice pillar
interpillar
intrapillar
light pillar
micropillar
nanopillar
pilaster
pillar and stall
pillar-biter
pillar block
pillar box
pillar-box red
pillar candle
pillar dollar
pillar drill
pillaret
pillar harp
pillarisation
pillarist
pillarize
pillarless
pillarlet
pillarlike
pillar of fire
pillar of flame
pillar of society
pillar of strength
pillar of the community
pillar telephone
Pillar Valley
pillarwise
pillary
room and pillar
sand pillar
solar pillar
sun pillar
tongue pillar
triangulation pillar
trig pillar
water pillar
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