Footing vs. Pedestal

Footingnoun

A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

Footingnoun

A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

Footingnoun

A relative condition; state.

Footingnoun

A tread; step; especially, measured tread.

Footingnoun

A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.

Footingnoun

stability or balance when standing on one's feet

Footingnoun

The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

Footingnoun

The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot

Footingnoun

A narrow cotton lace, without figures.

Footingnoun

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.

Footingnoun

The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.

Footingnoun

(accounting) Double checking the numbers vertically.

Footingnoun

Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

Footingnoun

Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

Footingnoun

Relative condition; state.

Footingnoun

Tread; step; especially, measured tread.

Footingnoun

The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

Footingnoun

The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.

Footingnoun

A narrow cotton lace, without figures.

Footingnoun

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.

Footingnoun

The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.

Footingnoun

status with respect to the relations between people or groups;

Footingnoun

a relation that provides the foundation for something;

Footingnoun

a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing

Pedestalnoun

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

Pedestalnoun

(figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

Pedestalnoun

(rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

Pedestalnoun

(machining) A pillow block; a low housing.

Pedestalnoun

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

Pedestalnoun

(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

Pedestalverb

To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

Pedestalnoun

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.

Pedestalnoun

A short free-standing column or column-like object designed to support a work of art or other object; a column serving the same function as the base of a statue. It may be made of wood, marble, or other suitable material.

Pedestalnoun

A part of a desk which contains a frame and drawers, stands on the floor, and provides support for the desk surface. There may be zero, one, or two such pedestals in a desk.

Pedestalnoun

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

Pedestalnoun

a support or foundation;

Pedestalnoun

a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority);

Pedestal

A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo 'foot of a stall') or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase, and of a column in architecture. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles.