different between pillar vs sustainer

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)

1. (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
2. Something resembling such a structure.

   a pillar of smoke

3. (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.

   He's a pillar of the community.
4. (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?)

5. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. to catch, get, to grab (e.g. grab a cab, get lunch, grab a drink, catch a movie)
2. to pilfer, steal
3. (games) to tag
4. (colloquial) to get (a joke)
5. (colloquial) to catch, to catch up to
6. (colloquial) to catch, to pick up, to bust, to nab (someone doing something illegal)

   Synonyms: atrapar, sorprender

7. (colloquial) to come down with, catch, to pick up (an illness)
8. (colloquial) to pick up on, to take (e.g. information, a hint)
9. (Spain, colloquial) to score (e.g. drugs)
10. (colloquial, reflexive) to jam (your finger)

    Me pillé el dedo con la puerta ? I jammed my finger in the door.

11. (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

1. present tense of pilla.

Anagrams

• prilla

English

Etymology

sustain +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

sustainer (plural sustainers)

1. A person or thing that sustains.
   • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 23, p. 320,^[1]

     […] But thy selfe, hast a sustainer bene

     Of much affliction in my cause: […]

   • 1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer, No. 36, 24 July, 1724, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, p. 296,^[2]

     […] not One in Fifty, of our Men of Fashion, or of Quality, as they call themselves, has an Understanding that is able to go alone. They are forc’d, therefore, to wait ’till they have their Sustainer’s Opinion to lean against, before they dare venture upon the Praise, even of what they are inclinable to think favourably of […]

   • 1887, Fanny Lemira Gillette and Hugo Ziemann, The White House Cook Book, p. 238,^[3]

     [Bread] constitutes of itself a complete life sustainer, the gluten, starch and sugar which it contains representing ozotized and hydro-carbonated nutrients, and combining the sustaining powers of the animal and vegetable kingdoms in one product.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, 1981, Chapter 33, p. 226,

     What a good lot of people they all were, I was betrayed by their applause and too many pink gins into thinking, the red-jowled sustainers of a great empire and their ladies, quaffers and yarners and players of deck games.

2. (US) A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
3. (US, obsolete) A radio program without a commercial sponsor.
   • 1943, “Wallflowers Join the Dance,” Time, 6 September, 1943,^[4]

     21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let’s Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat.

Translations

Anagrams

• resiaunts