pillar
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French pilier , from Medieval Latin pilare (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
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[edit] Noun
pillar (plural pillars)
- A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- Something resembling such a structure.
- a pillar of smoke
- An essential part of something that provides support.
- He's a pillar of the community.
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- A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar, D-pillar
- earth pillar
- from pillar to post
- pillar box
- pillar of salt, that Lot's wife turned into
- pillar of the community
- sun pillar
[edit] Translations
large post, often used as supporting architecture
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pillar (third-person singular simple present pillars, present participle pillaring, simple past and past participle pillared)
- 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.
- 1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:
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Pillar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- pillar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- pillar in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- pillar at OneLook Dictionary Search
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pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillé, past participle pillado)
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Conjugation of pillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | pillar | ||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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- (catch): atrapar, sorprender
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pillar
- present tense of pilla.
