pedestal

Etymology
From piédestal, from  piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stallo "stand") "footstand".

Noun

 * 1)  The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
 * 2)  A place of reverence or honor.
 * 3)  A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
 * 4)  A pillow block; a low housing.
 * 5)  An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
 * 6)  a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
 * 7)  A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
 * 8)  The measured value when no input signal is given.
 * 9)  The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
 * 10) The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
 * 1) The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: voetstuk, podsta
 * Arabic: عَمُود,, مِنَصَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: idulki
 * Belarusian: п'едэста́л, пастаме́нт
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, piedestal
 * Danish: sokkel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: peaña,
 * Georgian: კვარცხლბეკი, საყრდენი, ფუძე, საფუძველი
 * German:, , , , , , , , Untergestell, , Auflagebock, , Trägergerüst, Standfuß, Stützbock
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑπόβαθρα, βάθρον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: seastán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:, crepīdō
 * Latvian: pjedestāls
 * Lithuanian: pjedestalas
 * Luxembourgish: Sockel
 * Macedonian: пиедестал
 * Manx: laan
 * Norwegian: pidestall,
 * Occitan: pèdestal
 * Ottoman Turkish: سكی, كرسی
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: podstavec, piedestál
 * Slovene: podstávek
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , , , oturtak
 * Ukrainian: п'єдестал
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

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

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like
 * 2)   a place of reverence or honor

Noun

 * 1)   the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like
 * 2)   a place of reverence or honor

Noun

 * 1)   the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like
 * 2)   a place of reverence or honor