pedestal

Plural: pedestals

Noun

• a support or foundation
• a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
  • "they put him on a pedestal"
• an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
• The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
• A place of reverence or honor.
• A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
• A pillow block; a low housing.
• An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
• a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
• A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
• The measured value when no input signal is given.
• The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
• The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.

Verb

Verb Forms: pedestaled, pedestaling, pedestals, pedestalled, pedestalling

• To set on or support with a pedestal; to elevate.
• To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

Examples

• He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
• He tried to pedestal his small words with bonus squares, hoping to elevate his score.

Synonyms

base, footstall, plinth, stand

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