plinth
plinth
Definition
plinth (plint̸h)
noun
- the square block at the base of a column, pedestal, etc.
- the base on which a statue is placed
- a course of brick or stone, often a projecting one, along the base of a wall
- a flat block at the base of door trim, an architrave, etc.
Etymology: L plinthus < Gr plinthos, brick, tile
plinth
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- chamfer: East wall: tower arch raised on chamfered plinth.
- mold: There is a double basal, molded plinth with slightly hollowed coping stones, to a height of about 1m above ground level.
- raise: Floor of red quarry tiles; raised plinths for the benches remain; some heating vent grilles down aisle.
- step: On stepped square plinth a pedestal in form of Roman funerary monument, surmounted by tapering obelisk, pointed at summit.
Preposition: at
- height: East wall: rough plinth at height of 0.5m.
- base: In ' C ' with a low plinth at the base of the wall.
Adjective modifier
- basal: South wall: basal plinth of red sandstone blocks.
- octagonal: Furniture: an octagonal, worn yellow sandstone sundial plinth is located under an Irish yew tree near the southeast gates.
- concrete: The concrete plinth awaits the railroad to correct its size.
- rectangular: Above a rectangular plinth is a face showing what appears to be a long beard.
- wooden: Also a small single cylinder Hot Air Machine, home made on wooden plinth, Good Plus.
- empty: There's space on the empty plinth for a start.
Modifies a noun
- height: This provides evidence that altering plinth height is a simple postural risk reduction measure that is worth employing.
- base: Prepare a disk of mortar 0.6m diameter by 1cm deep on to the plinth base.
Noun used with modifier
- rubble: Brick on rubble plinth, substantial remains of an earlier timber framed building.
- granite: Wing behind left hand bay is built on a granite plinth on which a molded brick band rises over a blocked cellar opening.
- cobble: Brick with Welsh slate roof to forge, Swithland slate to the rest of the range, which also has a cobble plinth.
- brick: The frame is of elm, sitting on a brick plinth wall.
- sandstone: The whole is set in a worn sandstone plinth.
- stone: A glass top on a stone plinth hides the head of a 49 feet deep well over a bubbling spring.
