pedestal

1. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

   Sockel, Podest, Piedestal

   пьедеста́лpʹjedestál, постаме́нтpostamént, цо́кольcókolʹ

   п'єдесталpʺjedestal

   an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

2. (figuratively)A place of reverence or honor.

   He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.

3. A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

4. A pillow block; a low housing.

5. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

6. A pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

7. A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.

8. The measured value when no input signal is given.

9. The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.

10. An item upon which television cameras are mounted.

11. The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.

1. Tom puts Mary on a pedestal.

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2. American citizens paid for the statue's pedestal.

   Американські громадяни заплатили за постамент статуї.

   ruПостамент статуи оплатили американские граждане.

   deDie amerikanischen Bürger zahlten für den Sockel der Statue.

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3. He has her on a pedestal.

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4. The sky is a pedestal for stars.

   ruНебо - это пьедестал для звёзд.

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5. Sami was toppled off the political pedestal.

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