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Pedestal

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounThe base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2.NounA place of reverence or honor.
"He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her."
3.NounA casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4.NounA pillow block; a low housing.
5.NounAn iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
6.Nouna pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
7.NounA ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
8.NounThe measured value when no input signal is given.
9.NounThe central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
10.NounAn item upon which television cameras are mounted.
11.NounThe tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
12.VerbTo set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
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