Pillar
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. The term column applies especially to a large round support (the shaft of the column) with a capital and a base or pedestal which is made of stone, or appearing to be so. A small wooden or metal support is typically called a post, and supports with a rectangular or other non-round section are usually called piers. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces. Other compression members are often termed “columns” because of the similar stress conditions. Columns are frequently used to support beams or arches on which the upper parts of walls or ceilings rest. In architecture, “column” refers to such a structural element that also has certain proportional and decorative features. A column might also be a decorative element not needed for structural purposes; many columns are “engaged”, that is to say form part of a wall.
Pillar (noun)
A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
Pillar (noun)
Something resembling such a structure.
“a pillar of smoke”
Pillar (noun)
An essential part of something that provides support.
“He’s a pillar of the community.”
Pillar (noun)
A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
Pillar (noun)
The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
Pillar (verb)
To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
Pole (noun)
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
Pole (noun)
A type of basic fishing rod.
Pole (noun)
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
Pole (noun)
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
Pole (noun)
A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
Pole (noun)
Pole position.
Pole (noun)
A gun.
Pole (noun)
Either of the two points on the earth’s surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
Pole (noun)
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
Pole (noun)
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
Pole (noun)
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
Pole (noun)
For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) rightarrow infty as z rightarrow a.
“ux|en|The function f(z) = frac{1}{z-3} has a single pole at z = 3.”
Pole (noun)
The firmament; the sky.
Pole (noun)
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
Pole (verb)
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
“Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.”
Pole (verb)
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
“He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.”
Pole (verb)
To furnish with poles for support.
“to pole beans or hops”
Pole (verb)
To convey on poles.
“to pole hay into a barn”
Pole (verb)
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
Pole (verb)
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.