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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

pillar

/pil-er/US // ˈpɪl ər //UK // (ˈpɪlə) //

支柱,支架,支撑物,支撑

Related Words

pedestal台座,基座,底座,台阶backbone骨干力量,骨干,主干,脊梁骨shaft轴,轴心,轴线,轴上obelisk方尖碑,方尖石,方尖塔,石碑support支持,支助,支撑,支持率stanchion支架,支柱,支杆,锚杆mast桅杆,桅子,桅竿,樯橹灰飞烟灭upright直立的,直立,直立式的,正直的tower塔楼,塔台,高塔,塔prop榰pier码头,墩子,栈桥,桥墩post职位,岗位,职务,岗位职责colonnade柱廊,廊道,廊庑,廊桥piling桩基,打桩,桩工,桩柱pilaster壁柱,壁炉,壁架,壁柱式leader领导,领导人,领导者,领袖light光,光线,光明,光照rock岩石,摇滚,石头,磐石sinew肌腱,筋骨,腱子肉,筋腱worthy值得,有价值的,值得一提的是,值得的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
    • : a natural formation resembling such a construction: a pillar of rock; a pillar of smoke.
    • : any upright, supporting part; post: the pillar of a table.
    • : a person who is a chief supporter of a society, state, institution, etc.: a pillar of the community.
    • : Horology. any of several short parts for spacing and keeping in the proper relative positions two plates holding the bearings of a watch or clock movement.
    • : Mining. an isolated mass of rock or ore in a mine, usually serving as a roof support in early operations and later removed, wholly or in part.
    • : Nautical. mast.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to provide or support with pillars.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncolumn of building, or freestanding column
Forms: pillars
Synonyms
pedestal台座,基座,底座,台阶colonnade柱廊,廊道,廊庑,廊桥mast桅杆,桅子,桅竿,樯橹灰飞烟灭obelisk方尖碑,方尖石,方尖塔,石碑pier码头,墩子,栈桥,桥墩pilaster壁柱,壁炉,壁架,壁柱式piling桩基,打桩,桩工,桩柱post职位,岗位,职务,岗位职责prop榰shaft轴,轴心,轴线,轴上stanchion支架,支柱,支杆,锚杆support支持,支助,支撑,支持率tower塔楼,塔台,高塔,塔upright直立的,直立,直立式的,正直的
nounmainstay; source of strength
Forms: pillars
Synonyms
backbone骨干力量,骨干,主干,脊梁骨leader领导,领导人,领导者,领袖light光,光线,光明,光照rock岩石,摇滚,石头,磐石sinew肌腱,筋骨,腱子肉,筋腱supporter支持者,拥护者,支助者,支持人upholder支持者,维护者,持有人,维持者worthy值得,有价值的,值得一提的是,值得的guider指导者,引导员,导游,引导者tower of strength力量之塔,力量塔,实力之塔,实力塔

Examples

  • One of the main pillars in our attempt to keep numbers low was intense contact tracing.

  • Einstein built general relativity on some pillars called Einstein’s principles.

  • This latter pillar has been eroding over the years, with the last independent poll conducted in 2016 showing only 30% support for the president.

  • Ortiz and HKS cantilevered the decks at Globe Life Field to produce more overhang than in the retro parks but without the obstructive steel pillars of the jewel box parks.

  • The clustered content links back to the pillar page, lifting the authority of the pillar page which highlights its importance.

  • While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.

  • In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar.

  • That morning, Israeli Air Force launched Operation Pillar of Defense in response to hundreds of incoming rockets from Gaza.

  • Yet over the course of this season, Sansa has become a pillar of strong womanhood.

  • I live just 45 minutes from my childhood home, so I am hardly the pillar of independence.

  • He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.

  • I insisted on her taking my own rocker, while I fixed myself on the floor with a pillar for a back-rest.

  • To solve this one I stopped on the tavern steps, leaned against a pillar, and gazed through the dozing village.

  • Up the tube vapours may be seen ascending at great speed, the whole appearing like a gigantic pillar of swiftly revolving smoke.

  • For a pillar of the Church, Billy displayed rather amazing tastes and abilities.

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