pillar
See also: Pillar
English
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Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɪlɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪlə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
- 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.
- 2016, Christian Mallen as CJ, Manchester by the Sea, written by Kenneth Lonergan:
- Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
large post, often used as supporting architecture
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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.
- 1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:
- Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth
- 1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25:
- We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
- 1998, Functional and smart materials, page 226:
- In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.
- 2004, Scott M. Auerbach; Kathleen A. Carrado, Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:
- It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region.
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See also
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.
Catalan
Verb
pillar (first-person singular present pillo, past participle pillat)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of pillar (first conjugation)
infinitive | pillar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
present participle | pillant | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pillat | pillada | |||||
plural | pillats | pillades | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | pillo | pilles | pilla | pillem | pilleu | pillen | |
imperfect | pillava | pillaves | pillava | pillàvem | pillàveu | pillaven | |
future | pillaré | pillaràs | pillarà | pillarem | pillareu | pillaran | |
preterite | pillí | pillares | pillà | pillàrem | pillàreu | pillaren | |
conditional | pillaria | pillaries | pillaria | pillaríem | pillaríeu | pillarien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | pilli | pillis | pilli | pillem | pilleu | pillin | |
imperfect | pillés | pillessis | pillés | pilléssim | pilléssiu | pillessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
— | pilla | pilli | pillem | pilleu | pillin |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /piˈʎaɾ/
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /piˈɟ͡ʝaɾ/, [piˈʝaɾ]
Verb
pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillé, past participle pillado)
- to catch, get
- to pilfer, steal
- (colloquial) to get (a joke)
- (colloquial) to catch, catch up to
- (colloquial) to catch (someone doing something illegal)
- (colloquial) to come down with, catch (an illness)
- (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
infinitive | pillar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | pillando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pillado | pillada | |||||
plural | pillados | pilladas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pillo | pillastú pillásvos |
pilla | pillamos | pilláis | pillan | |
imperfect | pillaba | pillabas | pillaba | pillábamos | pillabais | pillaban | |
preterite | pillé | pillaste | pilló | pillamos | pillasteis | pillaron | |
future | pillaré | pillarás | pillará | pillaremos | pillaréis | pillarán | |
conditional | pillaría | pillarías | pillaría | pillaríamos | pillaríais | pillarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pille | pillestú pillésvos2 |
pille | pillemos | pilléis | pillen | |
imperfect (ra) |
pillara | pillaras | pillara | pilláramos | pillarais | pillaran | |
imperfect (se) |
pillase | pillases | pillase | pillásemos | pillaseis | pillasen | |
future1 | pillare | pillares | pillare | pilláremos | pillareis | pillaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | pillatú pillávos |
pille | pillemos | pillad | pillen | ||
negative | no pilles | no pille | no pillemos | no pilléis | no pillen |
Synonyms
- (catch): atrapar, sorprender
Derived terms
Swedish
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