Pistil

Definition

pillar /'pÇlǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) (ေက်ာက္၊ သစ္လံုး၊ သံ စသည္ျဖင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ) တိုင္၊ တိုင္လံုး၊ တိုင္မ။ (ခ) တိုင္လံုးပံု။ a pillar of fire/smoke. ၂။ ~ of sth (က) အမာခံေက်ာ႐ိုး (သို႔) မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး။ လူႀကီး။ a pillar of the Church/the establishment ❍ a scandal involving several pillars of society (ie highly respected people). (ခ) အခ်က္အခ်ာက် ေသာ အစိတ္အပိုင္း၊ က႑။ dismantling the pillars of apartheid ❍ eroding one of the great pillars of domestic policy, the benefits system. ❏ (go, be driven, etc) from pillar to post [ IDM ] ေတာင္ေျပးေျမာက္ေျပး ရြာေဆာ္ႀကီးေခြး ကဲ့သို႔။ ❏ pillar-box n ( dated Brit ) စာတိုက္ပံုး။ pillar-box red. Compare LETTERBOX, POSTBOX

Examples

1. An altar standing on marble pillars
2. [pillar of] : A pillar of rock/smoke
3. [a pillar of society/the community/the establishment] : Mr Henderson is a pillar of society.
4. [a pillar of strength/support] : You’ve been a pillar of strength to me.
5. [pillar of] : The treaty is a pillar of arms control in the nuclear age.