What is the difference between pedestal and plinth?
pedestal | plinth |
(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.
A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall.
A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.
As nouns the difference between pedestal and plinth
is that pedestal is the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp while plinth is a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.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
* * ----plinth
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
