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n. An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.

n. A support or foundation.

n. A position of high regard or adoration.

v. To place on or provide with a pedestal.

n. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands.

n. A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

n. A pillow block; a low housing.

n. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

n. a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

v. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

n. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of column.

n. A short free-standing column or column-like object designed to support a work of art or other object; a column serving the same function as the base of a statue. It may be made of wood, marble, or other suitable material.

n. A part of a desk which contains a frame and drawers, stands on the floor, and provides support for the desk surface. There may be zero, one, or two such pedestals in a desk.

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n. A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

n. A pillow block; a low housing.

n. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

n. That which serves as a foot or support, particularly for a piece of sculpture, a monument, or other work of art.

n. In machinery, the standards of a pillow-block, holding the brasses in which the shaft turns.

n. In a railroad-car, a casting of inverted-U shape bolted to the truck-frame to hold in place the journal-box of the axle, which rises and falls in the pedestal with the collapse and expansion of the springs. (See cut under car-truck.) Called in England an axle-guard or horn-plate.

To place on a pedestal; support as a pedestal.

n. In bridge-building, that portion of an abutment or pier which furnishes the immediate support for an end of a bridge truss or girder.

n. a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)

n. a support or foundation

n. an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

"Yes, the Romantic individualism which puts the “poetic genius” on a pedestal is a fairly recent development, but acclaim is not so new."

pedestalled    pedestalling    pedestals   

position    status   

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place on a pedestal    pedestal fan   

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