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pillar

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English

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Beinecke library pillar
 
Pelham's pillar
 
Roman pillar ruin

Etymology

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From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

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pillar (plural pillars)

  1. (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
  2. Something resembling such a structure.
    a pillar of smoke
  3. (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
    He's a pillar of the community.
    • 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:
      In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
    • 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by CJ (Christian Mallen):
      Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.
  4. (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
    • a. 1529, John Skelton, a poem:
      two laye-men secular
      eache of theym holdynge a pillar
      In their hondes, steade of a mace
  5. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
  6. (bodybuilding) The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
  7. (geology) A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.

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pillar (third-person singular simple present pillars, present participle pillaring, simple past and past participle pillared)

  1. (transitive) To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
    • 1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:
      Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth
    • 1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25:
      We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
    • 1998, Zhong Lin Wang with Zhen Chuan Kang, Functional and smart materials, page 226:
      In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.
    • 2004, Scott M. Auerbach with Kathleen A. Carrado and Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:
      It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French piller. The sense of "grab" is from Italian pigliare, either via direct borrowing or through the mediation of Spanish pillar.

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pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillí, past participle pillat)

  1. (transitive) to pillage, plunder, loot
  2. (transitive, colloquial) to snatch, grab
    Synonyms: agafar, prendre

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    Conjugation of pillar (first conjugation)
infinitive pillar
gerund pillant
past participle masculine feminine
singular pillat pillada
plural pillats pillades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present pillo pilles pilla pillem pilleu pillen
imperfect pillava pillaves pillava pillàvem pillàveu pillaven
future pillaré pillaràs pillarà pillarem pillareu pillaran
preterite pillí pillares pillà pillàrem pillàreu pillaren
conditional pillaria pillaries pillaria pillaríem pillaríeu pillarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present pilli pillis pilli pillem pilleu pillin
imperfect pillés pillessis pillés pilléssim pilléssiu pillessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós 		vostès
affirmative — pilla pilli pillem pilleu pillin
negative (no) — no pillis no pilli no pillem no pilleu no pillin

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Noun

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pillar m (plural pillares)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pilar.

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Probably borrowed from Italian pigliare or French piller. Compare also Portuguese pilhar and English pillage.

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /piˈʝaɾ/ [piˈʝaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /piˈʎaɾ/ [piˈʎaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /piˈʃaɾ/ [piˈʃaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /piˈʒaɾ/ [piˈʒaɾ]

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pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillé, past participle pillado)

  1. to catch, get, to grab (e.g. grab a cab, get lunch, grab a drink, catch a movie)
  2. to pilfer, steal
  3. (games) to tag
  4. (colloquial) to get (a joke)
  5. (colloquial) to catch, to catch up to
  6. (colloquial) to catch, to pick up, to bust, to nab (someone doing something illegal)
    Synonyms: atrapar, sorprender
  7. (colloquial) to come down with, catch, to pick up (an illness)
  8. (colloquial) to pick up on, to take (e.g. information, a hint)
  9. (Spain, colloquial) to score (e.g. drugs)
  10. (colloquial, reflexive) to jam (your finger)
    Me pillé el dedo con la puerta.
    I jammed my finger in the door.
  11. (colloquial, reflexive) to fall in love, to crush on someone
    Creo que se ha pillado de mí.
    I think she may have a crush on me.

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of pillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive pillar
gerund pillando
past participle masculine feminine
singular pillado pillada
plural pillados pilladas
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present pillo pillastú
pillásvos 		pilla pillamos pilláis pillan
imperfect pillaba pillabas pillaba pillábamos pillabais pillaban
preterite pillé pillaste pilló pillamos pillasteis pillaron
future pillaré pillarás pillará pillaremos pillaréis pillarán
conditional pillaría pillarías pillaría pillaríamos pillaríais pillarían
subjunctive yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present pille pillestú
pillésvos2 		pille pillemos pilléis pillen
imperfect
(ra) 		pillara pillaras pillara pilláramos pillarais pillaran
imperfect
(se) 		pillase pillases pillase pillásemos pillaseis pillasen
future1 pillare pillares pillare pilláremos pillareis pillaren
imperative — tú
vos 		usted nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ustedes
affirmative pillatú
pillávos 		pille pillemos pillad pillen
negative no pilles no pille no pillemos no pilléis no pillen

1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

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Noun

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pillar

  1. indefinite plural of pille

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pillar

  1. present indicative of pilla

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