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Pillar meaning
A large post, often used as supporting architecture. | Something resembling such a structure. | An essential part of something that provides support.
Example sentences (20)
One was composed of brick, and the other of stone, so that if the pillar of brick should be destroyed, the pillar of stone would remain, both reporting the ancient discoveries, and informing men that a pillar of brick was also erected.
Pillar tombs Pillar tombs are monumental graves, which typically feature a single, prominent pillar or column, often made of stone.
Gerry Morrell, with the Lafayette Historical Society and the mitigation group, said that the north pillar collapsed because it had no foundation, so when it was relocated the unsteady base caused the pillar to topple over.
They can then hop onto the platform they just placed when the pillar is at its lowest point, wait for the pillar to rise, and then use the Paraglider to reach the area ahead of them.
With the ‘democracy’ pillar crumbling, the ‘stability’ pillar is falling apart, as well.
Torches, for example may be placed on the lower end of the pillar while ornaments such as a gargoyle can be placed on the higher end of the pillar.
In Manchester, there had been 78 pillar one cases, but that jumped to 465 when pillar two figures were revealed.
It's a pillar of Sony Corp. and it's a pillar of the PlayStation company.
The data covers all mass testing in England, including that carried out in NHS and PHE labs – known as pillar one – plus all community testing, drive-throughs and tests sent to people’s homes, known as pillar two.
The figures, for the seven days to September 8, are based on tests carried out in laboratories (pillar one of the Government’s testing programme) and in the wider community (pillar two).
McCoy and Wynne's work comprises large 360-degree panoramic photographs produced by placing the camera on top of the triangulation pillar, alongside a picture of the pillar itself.
Saar, however, warned that the first pillar's yields will only remain bigger than those of the second pillar so long as the working-age population remains bigger than the number of pensioners, as it is based on the social tax paid by working-age people.
This, in turn, means that if they withdraw money from their second pillar fund, they also in a sense withdraw insurance components from the first pillar.
I’m a pillar of the community, she’s a pillar of salt.
On that Friday, our group of about 20 uses a deck of cards to determine what exercises to do as we run from pillar to pillar around the bronze statue of a gymnast that stands in the Georgia World Congress Center complex, east of what was then the Dome.
The shower scene, the creepy score, the infamous stills — not only is it a pillar of 20th-century filmmaking, it’s a pillar of the pop culture pantheon.
The transparent windshield-roof has allowed GFG to eliminate the A-pillar, directly arriving to the B-pillar as a single curve.
According to such mandate, inflation should be at around 2% YoY and has become the weakest pillar of the central bank's directive ever since the world suffered a pandemic, which extends to these days.
After Pillar hit a weak pop up to shortstop and Rosario hit a weak fly ball to left, utility infielder Vaughn Grissom was the Braves last hope of continuing their historic season.
Alba MSP Ash Regan (above), who defected from the in October, has made the advice a key pillar of her strategy.