pedestal

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
    — The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”
  2. A place of reverence or honor. figuratively
    — He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
  3. A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
  4. A pillow block; a low housing.
  5. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
  6. a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
  7. A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
  8. The measured value when no input signal is given.
  9. The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
  10. An item upon which television cameras are mounted.
  11. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

词形变化

pedestals plural pedestals present,singular,third-person pedestaling US,participle,present pedestalling UK,participle,present pedestaled US,participle,past pedestaled US,past pedestalled UK,participle,past pedestalled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
pedestal coil pedestal computer pedestal drill pedestal fan pedestalization pedestalize pedestal server pedestal telephone place set put on a pedestal unpedestal

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.
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