Pedestal vs Terrace - What's the difference?
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(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 platform that extends outwards from a building.
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A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
(in the plural, chiefly, British) The standing area at a football ground.
(chiefly, Indian English) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
To provide something with a terrace.
To form something into a terrace.
As a noun pedestal
is (architecture) the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.As a verb pedestal
is to set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.As a proper noun terrace is
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Noun
(en noun)- He has put his mother on a pedestal . You can't say a word against her.
Derived terms
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English
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(en noun)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace , explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
