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pillar
English
Etymology
From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pil?re (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?l?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?(?)
- Hyphenation: pil?lar
Noun
pillar (plural pillars)
- (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- Something resembling such a structure.
- a pillar of smoke
- (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
- He's a pillar of the community.
- (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Skelton to this entry?)
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
Synonyms
- column, sile
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
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.
See also
- caterpillar
Further reading
- pillar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pillar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pillar at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “pillar” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
- Aprill
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /pi??a/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /pi??a?/
- Rhymes: -a(?)
Verb
pillar (first-person singular present pillo, past participle pillat)
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Conjugation
Portuguese
Noun
pillar m (plural pillares)
- Obsolete spelling of pilar
Spanish
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Italian pigliare or French piller. Compare also Portuguese pilhar and English pillage.
Pronunciation
Verb
pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillé, past participle pillado)
- to catch, get, to grab (e.g. grab a cab, get lunch, grab a drink, catch a movie)
- to pilfer, steal
- (games) to tag
- (colloquial) to get (a joke)
- (colloquial) to catch, to catch up to
- (colloquial) to catch, to pick up, to bust, to nab (someone doing something illegal)
- Synonyms: atrapar, sorprender
- (colloquial) to come down with, catch, to pick up (an illness)
- (colloquial) to pick up on, to take (e.g. information, a hint)
- (Spain, colloquial) to score (e.g. drugs)
- (colloquial, reflexive) to jam (your finger)
- Me pillé el dedo con la puerta ? I jammed my finger in the door.
- (colloquial, reflexive) to fall in love, to crush on someone
- Creo que se ha pillado de mí ? I think she may have a crush on me.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- pillo
- pillería
- pilla pilla
See also
- agarrar
- asir
Swedish
Verb
pillar
- present tense of pilla.
Anagrams
- prilla
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buttress
English
Alternative forms
- buttrice
Etymology
From Old French ars bouterez (noun, literally “supporting arcs”), from bouterez (adj), oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?t??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?t??s/
Noun
buttress (plural buttresses)
- (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Synonyms: counterfort, brace
- Hyponym: flying buttress
- Coordinate term: pilaster
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (botany) A buttress-root.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- Synonyms: crag, bluff
- Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress
- (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.
Derived terms
- flying buttress
Translations
Verb
buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (figuratively, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
- Synonyms: corroborate, substantiate
Translations
Further reading
- buttress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- betrusts
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