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plinth

/plinth/US // plɪnθ //UK // (plɪnθ) //

基座,底座,基地,基座上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Architecture.

    • : a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier.
    • : a square base or a lower block, as of a pedestal.
    • : Also called plinth course . a projecting course of stones at the base of a wall; earth table.
    • : a flat member at the bottom of an architrave, dado, baseboard, or the like.

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Examples

  • Though the monument itself was unveiled in 1890, the time capsule was planted in 1887 along with the first parts of the giant plinth.

  • The 40-foot stone plinth remains in place, covered with colorful graffiti from last summer’s racial and social justice protests.

  • Aware of that status, Northam’s office still plans to take down the metal statue — though the fate of its stone plinth is an open question.

  • I half-expected him to barnstorm out in riding boots and harangue us, Mussolini-style, underlit from a plinth.

  • A giant toy duck was waddling on top of the fourth plinth when I arrived in Trafalgar Square mid-morning.

  • The forty-six stalls in the choir, erected on a plinth of red sandstone, belong to this period (1401-19).

  • The panels of the desks are elaborately worked, and the stone plinth which supports them is decorated with quatrefoils.

  • But the lower will seem to be larger, because it will project to the edge of the plinth.

  • LIX., and c the angle of the square plinth projecting beneath it.

  • The plinth which forms the upper part of the capital—supporting the entablature by bearing the lower surface of the epistyle beam.