What's the difference between pilaster and pinaster?
Pilaster
Definition:
(n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
(2) The skull itself may be briken (usually at the interpilasters or the weak points of the pilasters) or dented.
(3) After nine years of dealing with bureaucracy, raising funds and building work, the massive structure rose from the ground with a 60-metre high tower, a 30-metre long transept and a 50-metre long nave bordered by pilasters and arches.
Pinaster
Definition:
(n.) A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The germination power decreases in Pinus canariensis and P. pinaster, while in Pinus brutia and P. halepensis it is increased by low temperature.
(2) All transformants retained their ability to form mycorrhizae with the habitual host plant Pinus pinaster, making them suitable for future physiological studies.
(3) Peroxidase (Ec 1.11.1.7) was purified from needles of Pinus pinaster to apparent homogeneity by DE-52 cellulose chromatography with a final recovery of enzyme activity of about 85%.
(4) Pollen of Pinus brutia, P. canariensis, P. halepensis, P. pinaster has been stored at -20 degrees C for one year with the aim of checking the variation of viability.
(5) High resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis, with isoelectric focusing in the first dimension and electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate in thin acrylamide gels in the second dimension, has been applied to separate the proteins of single meristems (200-300 microns) from Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sequoia sempervirens, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Picea abies, Pinus pinaster, Eucalyptus gunnii and Populus nigra.