Pier
noun
A platform built on pillars or girders leading out from the shore into a water body, used as a landing stage for boats.
We went for a walk along the pier.
Often appears as...
- fishing pier
- pleasure pier
noun
The support for a structure such as an arch or bridge.
The bridge is supported by concrete piers.
Often appears as...
- bridge pier
- foundation pier
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Technical
noun
A platform built on pillars or girders leading out from the shore into a water body, used as a landing stage for boats.
We went for a walk along the pier.
Often appears as...
- fishing pier
- pleasure pier
noun
The support for a structure such as an arch or bridge.
The bridge is supported by concrete piers.
Often appears as...
- bridge pier
- foundation pier
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Public Access
Piers are often public places for walking, fishing, or sightseeing.
The town's public pier is crowded during the summer evenings.
Pro Tip 2/3Entertainment Venue
Some piers, especially pleasure piers, have rides, shops, and eateries.
We enjoyed the arcade games at the pleasure pier.
Pro Tip 3/3Fishing Spot
Fishing piers are special areas where people can fish without a boat.
He spent his morning fishing off the pier.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Access
Piers are often public places for walking, fishing, or sightseeing.
The town's public pier is crowded during the summer evenings.
Pro Tip 2/3Entertainment Venue
Some piers, especially pleasure piers, have rides, shops, and eateries.
We enjoyed the arcade games at the pleasure pier.
Pro Tip 3/3Fishing Spot
Fishing piers are special areas where people can fish without a boat.
He spent his morning fishing off the pier.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Access
Piers are often public places for walking, fishing, or sightseeing.
The town's public pier is crowded during the summer evenings.
Pro Tip 2/3Entertainment Venue
Some piers, especially pleasure piers, have rides, shops, and eateries.
We enjoyed the arcade games at the pleasure pier.
Pro Tip 3/3Fishing Spot
Fishing piers are special areas where people can fish without a boat.
He spent his morning fishing off the pier.
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Jonathan Foley: The...
You see the canal they dug? They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the moorings simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline. I don't know about you, but I'm terrified that future archaeologists will dig this up and write stories about
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Inspiration Through...
left-hand side and they're really enjoying the pier and you've got the happy couple i think it really like depicts the fun atmosphere that is there what is it that you wanted to show us as a photographer that i'm artistic and really driven and i enjoyed it it was so much fun nailed it everything that you said were
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Inmates Make Oyster...
moisture gardening program called Marylanders grow oysters and what they do is they recruit waterfront property owners that have piers or something and they provide them with baby oysters or with respect and they hold them in trays under their pier for a year and the
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Laser Scanning Reveals...
interior you can measure your way into articulating the exact curvature of this thing and once you realize the curvature then you can project it on up so that's the smoking gun the verticals go up the the great piers go up and then
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The incredible...
it's perfect for unloading new arrivals from shuttles. 2001 was a busy year for the Space Station with the addition of Quest, the main airlock for strolls outside, and Pirs, a pier for Russian spacecrafts to dock
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Take a Tour of a...
asking face-to-face at the pier and I got scared to be honest because it was a very unexpected meeting suddenly he shows up from behind the mountain of abstract metal I had to shoot twice in the air of
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China's Transition to...
the government changed its plan for renewable energy is there a giant push towards solar and wind piers at the next step China's got some of the biggest wind and solar companies in the world now even
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The Leap Year as...
Lee piers no they don't happen all the time but neither do presidential elections but people don't freak out with it well it's a presidential election year it's rare notes every four
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Monster Fish of the...
have to catch them we cast the bait right under the pier ah coos noses yeah take that suddenly you hook a big one
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Onboard Marine One PIPE...
concrete pier smaller than a football field to troop carriers with press and support staff land first
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Jonathan Foley: The...
You see the canal they dug? They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the moorings simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline. I don't know about you, but I'm terrified that future archaeologists will dig this up and write stories about
Video examples
Inspiration Through...
left-hand side and they're really enjoying the pier and you've got the happy couple i think it really like depicts the fun atmosphere that is there what is it that you wanted to show us as a photographer that i'm artistic and really driven and i enjoyed it it was so much fun nailed it everything that you said were
Video examples
Inmates Make Oyster...
moisture gardening program called Marylanders grow oysters and what they do is they recruit waterfront property owners that have piers or something and they provide them with baby oysters or with respect and they hold them in trays under their pier for a year and the
Video examples
Laser Scanning Reveals...
interior you can measure your way into articulating the exact curvature of this thing and once you realize the curvature then you can project it on up so that's the smoking gun the verticals go up the the great piers go up and then
Video examples
The incredible...
it's perfect for unloading new arrivals from shuttles. 2001 was a busy year for the Space Station with the addition of Quest, the main airlock for strolls outside, and Pirs, a pier for Russian spacecrafts to dock
Video examples
Take a Tour of a...
asking face-to-face at the pier and I got scared to be honest because it was a very unexpected meeting suddenly he shows up from behind the mountain of abstract metal I had to shoot twice in the air of
Video examples
China's Transition to...
the government changed its plan for renewable energy is there a giant push towards solar and wind piers at the next step China's got some of the biggest wind and solar companies in the world now even
Video examples
The Leap Year as...
Lee piers no they don't happen all the time but neither do presidential elections but people don't freak out with it well it's a presidential election year it's rare notes every four
Video examples
Monster Fish of the...
have to catch them we cast the bait right under the pier ah coos noses yeah take that suddenly you hook a big one
Video examples
Onboard Marine One PIPE...
concrete pier smaller than a football field to troop carriers with press and support staff land first
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Omarion
American Singer
A lot of the times, at least for men, we have a radar so to speak, and I rate a girl's personality, who she is, how outgoing she is, on the type of fun we're going to have. There are some girls where you can take them to things that are cool like the pier, and they'll actually enjoy that more than going to an expensive restaurant.
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Andy Andrews
American Author
When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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Herb Caen
American Journalist
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
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El-P
American Musician
I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972.
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Jill Biden
American Educator
I remember my grandmother taking me and my sisters to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. We would watch the diving bell and see the diving horse jump into the pool. We would take the bus there, and I just smile thinking about all of us running around the pier on those days.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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John F. Kennedy Jr.
American Lawyer
What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there's no avoiding them.
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Vogue Williams
Irish Model
If anyone ever asks me about different places, I always say I'd rather be in Howth. Any time I'm home, I just walk the pier and think how lucky I am to be there.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
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Adam West
American Actor
Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.
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Omarion
American Singer
A lot of the times, at least for men, we have a radar so to speak, and I rate a girl's personality, who she is, how outgoing she is, on the type of fun we're going to have. There are some girls where you can take them to things that are cool like the pier, and they'll actually enjoy that more than going to an expensive restaurant.
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Andy Andrews
American Author
When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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Herb Caen
American Journalist
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
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El-P
American Musician
I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972.
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Jill Biden
American Educator
I remember my grandmother taking me and my sisters to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. We would watch the diving bell and see the diving horse jump into the pool. We would take the bus there, and I just smile thinking about all of us running around the pier on those days.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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John F. Kennedy Jr.
American Lawyer
What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there's no avoiding them.
Quote examples
Vogue Williams
Irish Model
If anyone ever asks me about different places, I always say I'd rather be in Howth. Any time I'm home, I just walk the pier and think how lucky I am to be there.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
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Adam West
American Actor
Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.
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