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pillar. Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. 2 mainstay,<br />

supporter, worthy, upholder, backbone, (tower of) strength,<br />

leader: Cummings has been a pillar of strength in our<br />

community.<br />

pilot<br />

n. 1 aviator, aviatrix, flier, airman, airwoman, aeronaut,<br />

captain: The pilot announced that we would land in five<br />

minutes. 2 steersman, helmsman, navigator, US wheelman or<br />

wheelsman; guide, leader, cicerone, conductor: The pilot knows<br />

his way through the shoals. A student acted as our pilot in our<br />

tour of Oxford.<br />

--v. 3 guide, steer, run, direct, shepherd, control, lead,<br />

navigate, drive; fly: Only someone with local knowledge can<br />

pilot the ship into that harbour. The chairman piloted the<br />

company through turbulent times.<br />

pimp<br />

n. 1 procurer, panderer or pander, White slaver, whoremonger,<br />

Slang US hustler: The police rounded up the pimps and<br />

prostitutes for questioning.<br />

--v. 2 procure, pander, solicit, Slang US hustle: He was well<br />

known as having pimped for three generations of the nobility.<br />

pimple n. pustule, papula, boil, swelling, eruption, blackhead or<br />

technical comedo, excrescence, Brit spot, Scots plouk or plook,<br />

US whitehead, Old-fashioned US hickey: The old witch had a<br />

pimple at the end of her nose.<br />

pin<br />

n. 1 peg, dowel, bolt, thole, thole-pin, spike, rivet; Brit<br />

drawing-pin, US push-pin: The table is held together by wooden<br />

pins. We need some more pins for the notice-board. 2 brooch,<br />

clip; stickpin, tie-pin, scarf-pin, US tie tack: She is wearing<br />

the cameo pin that her mother gave her. I had George's pin made<br />

into a brooch.<br />

--v. 3 attach, fix, affix, fasten, secure, tack; hold, staple,<br />

clip: Let's play 'Pin the tail on the donkey'. Pin these papers<br />

together. 4 pin down. a force, make, compel, coerce,<br />

constrain, press, Brit pressurize, US pressure: We must pin him<br />

down to give his decision by tomorrow. b define, specify,<br />

pinpoint, name, identify, determine, name, put or lay one's<br />

finger on, home or zero in on, focus on: The doctor was unable

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