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A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making
Cabinet making

Cabinet making is the practice of utilizing various woodworking skills to create cabinets, shelving and furniture.Cabinet making involves techniques such as creating appropriate Woodworking joints, dado_, bevel, chamfer and shelving systems, the use of finishing tools such as Wood routers to create decorative edgings, and so on....
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In architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column
Column

File:National Capitol Columns - Washington, D.C..jpgA column in structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through physical compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below....
, pedestal
Pedestal

Pedestal is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square pedestals, in Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of Trajan's Column and Anton...
, statue
Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a Bust , and at least close to life-size, or larger....
, monument
Monument

A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past events....
 or structure
Structure

Structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature , and stability of patterns and relationships of entities....
 rests.








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A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making
Cabinet making

Cabinet making is the practice of utilizing various woodworking skills to create cabinets, shelving and furniture.Cabinet making involves techniques such as creating appropriate Woodworking joints, dado_, bevel, chamfer and shelving systems, the use of finishing tools such as Wood routers to create decorative edgings, and so on....
.

In architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column
Column

File:National Capitol Columns - Washington, D.C..jpgA column in structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through physical compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below....
, pedestal
Pedestal

Pedestal is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square pedestals, in Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of Trajan's Column and Anton...
, statue
Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a Bust , and at least close to life-size, or larger....
, monument
Monument

A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past events....
 or structure
Structure

Structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature , and stability of patterns and relationships of entities....
 rests.

See also

  • Set-off (architecture)
    Set-off (architecture)

    In architecture and masonry, the term set-off is given to the horizontal line shown on a floorplan indicating a reduced wall thickness, and consequently the part of the thicker portion appears projecting before the thinner....
  • Socle (architecture)
    Socle (architecture)

    In architecture, a socle is a short plinth used to support a pedestal or sculpture. In the field of archaeology, this term is used to refer to a wall base, frequently of stone, that supports the upper part of the wall, which is made of a different material, frequently mud brick....