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单词 pedestal
释义 pedestal
 /ped"euh stl/,  n.  ,  v.  , pedestaled, pedestaling or (esp. Brit.) pedestalled, pedestalling.
  n.  
  1. an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like. See diag. under column.
  2. a supporting structure or piece; base.
  3.  Furniture.  
   a. a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other.
   b. a columnar support for a tabletop.
  4.  Building Trades.   a bulge cast at the bottom of a concrete pile.
  5. set or put on a pedestal, to glorify; idealize: When we first became engaged each of us set the other on a pedestal.
  v.t.  
  6. to put on or supply with a pedestal.
 [1555-65; alter. of MF piedestal < It piedestallo, var. of PIEDISTALLO lit., foot of stall. See PED-2, DE, STALL1]
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