单词 | pillaring |
释义 | pillaringn. 1. The action of furnishing or supporting something with pillars; the action of forming something into a pillar. Also concrete: work consisting of pillars (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > action or fact of supporting > by other specific means pinning1418 stanchioning1528 beaming1538 pillaring1607 tomming1858 levitation1939 surface mount1954 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 66 Scarce any thing else is thought on, then the pillering vp of ceremonies. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 40 Pillaring of Beams is to a Ship as Bracing to a Drum. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 116 The pillaring of a frame adds..to its strength, by acting both as a strut and a tie. a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iv. vi. 356 The sacred boxes..were of pandanus wood, oblong in shape, with an effect of pillaring along the sides. 1937 J. Squire London Reverie liii. 236 The old General Post Office, at St. Martin's-le-Grand,..was built in 1829 during the great epoch of London pillaring. 2003 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 6 June f4 If retreat pillaring was done, the whole area could be affected. 2. Chemistry and Mineralogy. The occurrence or development of a pillared structure. Cf. pillared adj. 3. ΚΠ 1983 Science 22 Apr. 365/2 The pillaring phenomenon leads to the formation of porous networks analogous to zeolites. 1986 Nature 7 Aug. 533/1 Pillaring of layered compounds by polynuclear hydroxy metal cations or bulky organic species has been applied to the formation of microporous networks analogous to zeolites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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