(n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
(n.) A pillow block; a low housing.
(n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
Example Sentences:
(1) The visibility of a 1 degree, 200-msec flash on a large yellow field was measured as a function of the intensity of a coincident pedestal flash (a flash that was the same in both temporal intervals of a two-alternative forced-choice trial).
(2) The jnd's obtained with the continuous-pedestal method were smaller than those obtained with the gated-pedestal method for both groups of subjects.
(3) The stress effects of the cuff pedestal treatment were assessed in terms of adrenal weights in 12 rats.
(4) Effects of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation on meal size and feeding speed were investigated by means of the cuff pedestal technique in 9 male rats exposed to partial food restriction.
(5) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(6) We used forced-choice procedures to measure contrast-increment thresholds as a function of pedestal contrast.
(7) We wished to determine whether a similar analysis could be applied to contrast discrimination and whether variation of the increment threshold with pedestal contrast is due to changes in internal noise or sampling efficiency.
(8) No such deterioration occurred in the continuous-pedestal condition.
(9) Reproducible ramp-and-hold stretches and releases of the ankle extensor muscles were produced by a servo-controlled motor that rotated the left rear pedestal about the ankle joint.
(10) Eight male rats were deprived of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep for 6 days by means of a cuff pedestal which makes it possible to use the animal as its own control.
(11) Both the falloff of sensitivity with disparity pedestal and the disparity range of quantitative stereo depth lead to the conclusion that different size-tuned channels process disparity differently.
(12) The adenohypophyseal levels of these hormones were decreased in the REMs-deprived rats and in the control rats kept on pedestals with the supporting cuff in the elevated position as compared with the home-cage control rats.
(13) That’s because he never did.” The statue reaches at least 15ft off the ground on a pedestal that comes with a good story, told by Harvey Marsolan, the owner of the hardware store across the street.
(14) Discrimination thresholds were also measured with a pedestal stimulus, of phase complementary to that of the test gratings.
(15) Eventually, large areas of brush border effacement occurred with close apposition between bacterial and enterocyte membranes, leading to cup and pedestal formation.
(16) Intimate associations between the bacterial and mucosal cell membranes, including cuplike invaginations and adherence pedestals, were present and were accompanied by alterations to microvilli and cell membrane morphology.
(17) Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation for 3 to 4 days by the platform pedestal procedure produced an increase in sexual behaviour of male rats.
(18) In both masking conditions, presenting a notched noise simultaneously with the pedestal reduced the magnitude of the midlevel elevation.
(19) The system has manual controls for gain and pedestal (black level) which permit expansion of low contrast images to the full white-to-black video range.
(20) Research suggests that the US has been knocked off its pedestal as having the world’s richest middle class.
Plinth
Definition:
(n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(2) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(3) The work, a scaled-down replica of Nelson's ship Victory first seen on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, was this week being installed in its new home in Greenwich, outside the new Sammy Ofer wing of the National Maritime Museum .
(4) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
(5) The banners – Don't Put the Kettle On, Mr Cameron and I Can't Believe It's Not Thatcher – are lowered, and the leaders climb on the plinth below Nelson's column and speak, asking the students to come back next week.
(6) Statues are removed from their plinths; the names of streets, squares, buildings and banknotes are hastily changed to expunge mentions of discredited leaders and dubious historical heroes.
(7) The ref wheechs Kick Off Ball from the top of Kick Off Ball Plinth, and leads the teams out.
(8) Yinka Shonibare's scale model of Nelson's flag ship Victory, sails printed with African textile designs and flying flag signals from the Battle of Trafalgar including "engage the enemy closely", has proved one of the most popular of the fourth plinth sculpture commissions.
(9) There is a rotunda decorated with Third Reich-esque golden statues; a monument to wartime partisans at a table on a plinth; and, of course, a Triumphal Arch, which the government listed as a “national treasure” as soon as it was constructed – all crammed into a space the size of one city square.
(10) Sky Arts has made a number of profile-raising deals, including sponsoring the Hay on Wye festival since 2007, backing English National Opera, and giving coverage last year to people occupying the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
(11) Next morning, Rob and I saddled up to conquer Rio's other famous peak, the 710m Corcovado, the granite plinth of Christ the Redeemer.
(12) The ref scoops Kick Off Ball from the top of Kick Off Plinth - that football's come to this - and the teams are on the pitch!
(13) The teams are out, the referee having scooped up the ball from its wee plinth.
(14) Sturgeon, the real talent in the field, was ready for him, bobbing and weaving at the plinth, fluent in both defence and attack and only slightly hampered – or possibly helped – by the fact at times she resembles a very frightening child genius from the 1950s.
(15) In front of them is a cedarwood box on a plinth covered with silver nickel filigree work and a plaque in the shape of the Wu-Tang Clan’s batlike logo, which the RZA calls “the illest album cover in the word”.
(16) • Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Ship In A Bottle is in the Fourth Plinth exhibition at ICA in London until 20 January.
(17) A few minutes before the public was admitted to the plaza where Sharon's coffin lay on a black marble plinth, members of the Knesset guard laid wreaths at its base as two army rabbis read from the book of psalms.
(18) Moments before the teams filed up the tunnel a pitch invader came within inches of swiping the World Cup trophy off its plinth but was tackled by security guards just in time.
(19) Victorian taxidermy specimens stand mounted on wood plinths.
(20) At more or less the time the world was watching Saddam Hussein's statue being torn from its plinth, looters were vandalising statues from the great civilisations of Nineveh and Babylon with equal energy.