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podium|ˈpəʊdɪəm|
Pl. podia, podiums.
[L. podium an elevated place, balcony, ad. Gr. πόδιον, dim. of πούς, ποδ- foot.]
1. Arch.
a. A continuous projecting base or pedestal, a stylobate.
b. A raised platform surrounding the arena in an ancient amphitheatre.
c. A continuous seat or bench around a room.
[1611Coryat Crudities 164 (Venice) Euery Palace of any principall note hath a prety walke or open gallery betwixt the wall of the house and the brincke of the riuers banke... Suetonius calleth these kinde of open galleries Podia.] 1743W. Stukeley Abury vii. 28 This was as the podium of an amphitheater, for the lower tire of spectators. 1789P. Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 149 The podium (the bottom part of the wall) projects at its lower extremity. 1832Gell Pompeiana I. iv. 54 Along the whole runs a sort of podium or base. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. §233 The amphitheatre at Nismes... Its exterior wall has three stories of Tuscan pilasters on the face of the wall, the two upper whereof stand on podia. 1848B. Webb Cont. Ecclesiol. 176 Standing figures..are ranged in two rows on podia between the piers. 1850S. Dobell Roman viii, Up from the podium to the beetling height I turn'd one dying look. 1887Pall Mall G. 4 Mar. 4/1 The podium of the Albert Memorial is almost as fresh as the day the structure was uncovered.
d. A raised platform or dais at the front of a hall or stage; spec. that occupied by the conductor of an orchestra.
1947A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era xv. 215 The longer Chopin continued in his career, the more he avoided the concert podium and the expectant masses. 1955R. Crane Hero's Walk v. 94 There was no applause when Dr. Werner took his place at the podium. 1972N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 30/2 Mr. Steinberg stands there, all but motionless,..and manages to get more from an orchestra than a squadron of podium monkeys jumping up and down. 1973W. H. Hallahan Ross Forgery (1977) iv. 65 The auctioneer stepped off the podium. 1977Kuwait Times 23 Nov. 5/3, I address the following appeal from this podium to the people of Israel. 1978Gramophone Oct. 658/3 He has a genre of courage and determination that enabled him to fight back after a particularly bad car accident and reappear on the podium long before the time appointed by his doctor.
e. A projecting lower structure around the base of a tower block.
1962Times 19 Mar. 13/7 The podium-and-tower pattern is not only a product of daylighting codes. 1970Daily Tel. 21 May 7 At the base of the 220 ft-high tower will be a podium of two and three-story buildings.
2. Anat. and Zool.
a. The fore or hind foot (manus or pes) of a mammal or other vertebrate; in birds, the junction of the toes, or the toes collectively.
b. In compounds denoting parts of the foot of a mollusc: as epipodium, mesopodium, metapodium, propodium.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Podion, Podium, applied by Illiger to the junction of the toes at the extremity of the tarsus, upon which the leg rests in birds; to the inferior part of the limb, comprehending, before, the carpus, metacarpus, and toes; behind, the tarsus, metatarsus, and toes in the Mammifera. 1895in Syd. Soc. Lex.
3. Bot. A footstalk or other supporting part. (Chiefly in compounds.)
1866Treas. Bot., Podium, Podus, a stalk, or receptacle, or torus; used only in Greek compounds. |