pillar

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English [edit]

Beinecke library pillar
Pelham's pillar
Roman pillar ruin

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English, from Old French pilier , from Medieval Latin pilare (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

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Noun [edit]

pillar (plural pillars)

  1. A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
  2. Something resembling such a structure.
    a pillar of smoke
  3. An essential part of something that provides support.
    He's a pillar of the community.
  4. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

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large post, often used as supporting architecture
essential part of something

Verb [edit]

pillar (third-person singular simple present pillars, present participle pillaring, simple past and past participle pillared)

  1. To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
    • 1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:
      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
    • 1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25:
      We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
    • 1998, Functional and smart materials, page 226:
      In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.
    • 2004, Scott M. Auerbach; Kathleen A. Carrado, Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:
      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.

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Verb [edit]

pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillé, past participle pillado)

  1. to catch, get
  2. to pilfer, steal
  3. (colloquial) to get (a joke)
  4. (colloquial) to catch, catch up to
  5. (colloquial) to catch (someone doing something illegal)
  6. (colloquial) to come down with, catch (an illness)

Conjugation [edit]

    Conjugation of pillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive pillar
gerund pillando
past participle pillado
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú él/ella
usted		 nosotros vosotros ellos/ellas
ustedes
present pillo pillas pilla pillamos pilláis pillan
imperfect pillaba pillabas pillaba pillábamos pillabais pillaban
preterite pillé pillaste pilló pillamos pillasteis pillaron
future pillaré pillarás pillará pillaremos pillaréis pillarán
conditional pillaría pillarías pillaría pillaríamos pillaríais pillarían
subjunctive yo tú él/ella
usted		 nosotros vosotros ellos/ellas
ustedes
present pille pilles pille pillemos pilléis pillen
imperfect
(ra)		 pillara pillaras pillara pilláramos pillarais pillaran
imperfect
(se)		 pillase pillases pillase pillásemos pillaseis pillasen
future pillare pillares pillare pilláremos pillareis pillaren
imperative — tú usted nosotros vosotros ustedes
affirmative pilla pille pillemos pillad pillen
negative no pilles no pille no pillemos no pilléis no pillen

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pillar

  1. present tense of pilla.
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