pedestal
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle French piédestal, from Italian piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stall "stand") "footstall".
[edit] Pronunciation
\Ped"es*tal\
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pedestal (plural pedestals)
- (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of {Column}.
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- (Railroad Cars) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- (Mach.) A pillow block; a low housing.
- (Bridge Building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- Pedestal coil (steam Heating), a group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, -- used in a radiator.
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the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like
[edit] See also
Pedestal on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
[edit] External links
- pedestal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- pedestal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Noun
pedestal m. (plural pedestales)
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