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Pillar logo #10101) Arcade support 2) Art game 3) Automotive safety technology 4) Automotive styling feature 5) Borough of Copeland 6) British elevation 7) British mountain 8) British peak 9) British hill 10) Building supporter 11) Column 12) Column kin 13) Column supporting a building 14) Community mainstay 15) Community standout
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Pillar logo #10101) Caryatid 2) Columella 3) Column 4) Hoodoo 5) Mainstay 6) Obelisk 7) Pier 8) Pilaster 9) Piling 10) Prop 11) Spile 12) Stela 13) Stilt 14) Telamon
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pillar logo #10444
  1. a fundamental principle or practice
  2. anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower
  3. a prominent supporter
  4. a vertical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (as a monument or a column of air)
  5. a tall cylindrical vertical upright

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Pillar logo #21002• (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. • (n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church...
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Pillar logo #22197A structural support, similar to a column, but larger and more massive, and often without ornamentation. Pillars can be round or square in section, and are most often made of brick, stone, cement, or other masonry, although substantial wooden timbers can be formed into pillars.
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Pillar logo #22675A free standing candle usually round and tall like a cylinder, but can be made in other shapes such as square, hexagon, triangle, star, heart, etc. These are made in metal, acrylic or latex molds and are meant to be burned on a flat holder.
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Pillar logo #23220A free standing candle usually round and tall like a cylinder, but can be made in other shapes such as square, hexagon, triangle, star, heart, etc. These are made in metal, acrylic or latex molds and are meant to be burned on a flat holder.
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Pillar logo #21044An area of coal left to support the overlying strata in a mine; sometimes left permanently to support surface structures.
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Pillar logo #22332A shaft or other structure that supports the roof of a vehicle, with the A-pillars being the structures that frame the windscreen, and each successive set of structures (moving toward the rear of the vehicle) being named after successive letters of the alphabet.
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Pillar logo #20450A brass post separating the two plates of a full-, half- or three-quarter-plate movement.   Until about 1790 pillars were of various ornamental forms, usually rectangular or polygonal in cross-section;  afterwards they were cylindrical.
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Pillar logo #20938An upright support of square cross-section.
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pillar logo #209731. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. 'Jacob set a pillar upon her grave.' (Gen. Xxxv. 20) 'The place . . . Vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood.' (Dry...
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pillar logo #21001(pil´әr) a supporting column, usually occurring in pairs. pillars of fauces the palatoglossal arch and palatopharyngeal arch considered together.
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Pillar logo #20972Pil'lar adjective (Machinery) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
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Pillar logo #20972Pil'lar noun [ Middle English piler French pilier , Late Latin pilare , pilarium , pilarius , from Latin pila a pillar. See Pile a heap.] 1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, colu...
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Pillar logo #22331A landform shaped like a pillar.
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Pillar logo #20863Column of slate left underground to support the area above it
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Pillar logo #22731An area of coal left to support the overlying strata in a mine; sometimes left permanently to support surface structures.
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Pillar logo #23899A block of solid ore or other rock left in place to structurally support the shaft, walls or roof of a mine.
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Pillar logo #23130A structural member that connects the roof to the body of the car. Pillars are usually notated from front to back alphabetically.
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Pillar logo #20940A free-standing load bearing support, such as a column. Sometimes it is an isolated member erected for commemorative purposes.
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pillar logo #20974 noun a fundamental principle or practice; `science eroded the pillars of superstition`
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Pillar logo #21131A vertical shaft of light extending above or below the sun, moon, or other strong light source. Also, sun pillar.
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Pillar logo #22199A support which does not taper, has an impost, and does not need to be cylindrical as is the case with a column. The shaft consists of either rectangular, octagonal, circular, or cruciform blocks and may have a capital (fig.5, A).
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Pillar logo #22734A block of solid ore or other rock left in place to structurally support the shaft, walls or roof of a mine.
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