different between pillar vs trilithon

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.

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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?a?.l?.??n/

Noun

trilithon (plural trilithons or trilitha)

1. A structure consisting of two stone pillars supporting a horizontal stone.
   • 1846, Edward Duke, The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts, page 158,

     […] thus the two opposite trilithons which are nearest to the north-west or grand entrance, were 19 feet in height, the two next opposite trilithons correspond in the height of 20 feet 3 inches, and the trilithon at the back of the stone of astronomic observation, or as erringly called the Altar-stone, raised its ascent to the astonishing height of 25 feet.

   • 1983, Hans van der Laan, Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat, page 193,

     The two trilithons forming the wall on each side of the cella therefore pass on the mutual neighbourhood to each other, despite the fact that they are set a slight distance apart. But owing to the oblique placing of the pair of trilithons nearest the head-end the spread is greatly reduced on that side; the head-trilithon stands at the exact spot where it ceases.

   • 2007, Brad Olsen, Sacred Places Europe: 108 Destinations, Consortium of Collective Consciousness, page 45,

     Within the sarsen circle are the five impressive trilithons, forming a horseshoe-shaped ring of huge stones.

   • 2009, John Beer, Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot, Cambridge University Press, page 84,

     […] whereas the four-square gallows would have been more likely to suggest to his contemporary Blake, who normally used symbolism for its own sake, a resemblance to one of the four-square trilitha at Stonehenge.

Synonyms

• (two stone pillars supporting a third stone): trilith

Meronyms

• posts
• lintel

See also

• cromlech
• menhir