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pil·lar

(pĭl′ər)

a. A slender, freestanding, vertical support; a column.

b. Such a structure or one similar to it used for decoration.

2. One who occupies a central or responsible position: a pillar of the state.

tr.v. pil·lared, pil·lar·ing, pil·lars

To support or decorate with pillars or a pillar.

Idiom:

from pillar to post

From one place to another; hither and thither.

[Middle English, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin pīlāre, from Latin pīla.]

pillared

(ˈpɪləd)

adj

(Architecture) architect containing upright structures of stone, brick, metal, etc, that support a superstructure or are used for ornamentation

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Adj.

pillared - having pillars; "the pillared portico"

columned - having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form); "a columned portico"; "trees with columned trunks"; "white-columned houses"

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pillared

[ˈpɪlə^rd] adj [building] → soutenu(e) par des pilierspill bottle n → flacon m de pilules

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In consideration of the fact that the transportation of ions to a surface occurs by the internal channels of emitting substance [5], it is of interest to investigate not only natural but also modified MM with extended distance between silicate layers, the so-called pillared MM.

A crucial point of obtaining pillared MM is hydrolytic synthesis of intercalants--large-size multiple-charge metal polyhydroxocomplexes.

Thermal Emission of Alkali Metal Ions from [Al.sub.30]-Pillared Montmorillonite Studied by Mass Spectrometric Method

In one case, they made a "supergallery" pillared clay by inserting a positively charged metal ion between negatively charged clay layers.