Pedestal vs Feet - What's the difference?
pedestal | feet |
(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp
(figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
(rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
(machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
(bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
(foot).
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 (lb) Fact; performance; feat.
As nouns the difference between pedestal and feet
is that pedestal is (architecture) the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp while feet is (foot).As a verb pedestal
is to set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.pedestal
Noun
(en noun)- He has put his mother on a pedestal . You can't say a word against her.
Derived terms
* pedestal coil * pedestal fan * place]] / [[set on a pedestal, set / put on a pedestalSee also
* (commonslite)External links
* * ----feet
English
Noun
(head)citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
