pedestal

Meanings

Noun

• The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
• A place of reverence or honor.
• A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
• A pillow block; a low housing.
• An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
• a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
• A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
• The measured value when no input signal is given.
• The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle French piédestal, from Italian piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stallo "stand") "footstall".