pillar
支柱,支架,支撑物,支撑
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Definitions
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- : an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- : a natural formation resembling such a construction: a pillar of rock; a pillar of smoke.
- : any upright, supporting part; post: the pillar of a table.
- : a person who is a chief supporter of a society, state, institution, etc.: a pillar of the community.
- : Horology. any of several short parts for spacing and keeping in the proper relative positions two plates holding the bearings of a watch or clock movement.
- : Mining. an isolated mass of rock or ore in a mine, usually serving as a roof support in early operations and later removed, wholly or in part.
- : Nautical. mast.
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- : to provide or support with pillars.
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Examples
One of the main pillars in our attempt to keep numbers low was intense contact tracing.
Einstein built general relativity on some pillars called Einstein’s principles.
This latter pillar has been eroding over the years, with the last independent poll conducted in 2016 showing only 30% support for the president.
Ortiz and HKS cantilevered the decks at Globe Life Field to produce more overhang than in the retro parks but without the obstructive steel pillars of the jewel box parks.
The clustered content links back to the pillar page, lifting the authority of the pillar page which highlights its importance.
While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.
In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar.
That morning, Israeli Air Force launched Operation Pillar of Defense in response to hundreds of incoming rockets from Gaza.
Yet over the course of this season, Sansa has become a pillar of strong womanhood.
I live just 45 minutes from my childhood home, so I am hardly the pillar of independence.
He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.
I insisted on her taking my own rocker, while I fixed myself on the floor with a for a back-rest.