What does pillar mean?
Pillar means (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture..
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/ˈpɪlə/ · noun
(architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture..
a pillar of smoke
He's a pillar of the community.
In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.
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Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth
We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.
Use pillar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pillar means (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture..
Common synonyms include column, sile, tower, mainstay.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a pillar of smoke
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