Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Pillar
Pillar noun - An upright shaft that supports an overhead structure.
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Synonyms for Pillar
Nearby Word: pillared
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The arc's Doomsday Device, Face, a large pillar with, well, a face on top, looked kinda stoic when we first see it.
Source: Slasher Smile -
When it was in development, Nintendo presented the device as a "third pillar" to complement the Nintendo GameCube and the Game Boy Advance, rather than claim that the DS was the latest iteration of the Game Boy hardware.
Source: Useful Notes / Nintendo DS -
In Blue Dragon, the player has to to push over a tree to make a bridge to reach a chest in the Lot Wilderness, and the Elder of Pachess Town uses the Green Device to destroy the base of a rock pillar to make a bridge over a fissure in the Giant Ice Fields.
Source: Bridge Logic
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