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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.
- noun Something resembling a buttress, as.
- noun The flared base of certain tree trunks.
- noun A horny growth on the heel of a horse's hoof.
- noun Something that serves to support, prop, or reinforce.
- transitive verb To support or reinforce with a buttress.
- transitive verb To sustain, prop, or bolster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To support by a buttress; hence, to prop or prop up, literally or figuratively.
- noun A wall or abutment built along a stream to prevent the logs in a drive from cutting the bank or jamming.
- noun The angle formed on the plantar surface of the hoof by the junction of the wall with the bar.
- noun A structure built against a wall, for the purpose of giving it stability.
- noun Figuratively, any prop or support.
- noun In farriery, an instrument of steel set in wood, for paring the hoof of a horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
- noun (Arch.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
- noun Anything which supports or strengthens.
- noun See
Flying buttress .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
brick or stonestructure built against another structure tosupport it. - noun Anything that serves to support something; a
prop . - noun botany A buttress-root.
- noun climbing A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a
crag , abluff . - verb To support something
physically with, or as if with, aprop or buttress. - verb To support something or someone by supplying
evidence ; tocorroborate orsubstantiate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make stronger or defensible
- noun a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
- verb reinforce with a buttress
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Salvini, a noted Italian democrat, was right on the mark when he observed: "The widespread ignorance of events is the main buttress of injustice".
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And when this policy seemed in danger of leading to regression as a result of electoral defeat, the commit ment to electoral (hence revisionist) activism was characterized as a buttress to the established theory of societal breakdown rather than as a major concession to revisionist ideology.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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To the right of the buttress is a long two-cusped lancet light; to the left may be traced, perhaps, the outline of an original round-arched window; while on both sides there are sloping lines in the masonry, as if there had been an acutely-pointed gable here.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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Close to this window, and rising up just above the sill of the clerestory windows, is a narrow, flat buttress, which is probably of the same date as the window.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette
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The end of the buttress was a foot or two below the level of the leads, where Clara stood.
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
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ChangeWave's survey results on dropped calls buttress the complaints made by iPhone users since Apple introduced the smartphone: AT&T's network performance is sub-standard.
PCWorld 2010
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
Related Words
synonyms (146)
Words with the same meaning
- abutment
- advocate
- affirm
- afford support
- alpenstock
- arc-boutant
- arm
- athletic supporter
- attest
- authenticate
- back
- back up
- backbone
- backing
- bandeau
- bank
- beam
- bear
- bear out
- bear up
- bearer
- beef up
- bolster
- bolster up
- bra
- brace
- brace up
- bracer
- bracket
- brassiere
- breakwater
- bulwark
- buoy up
- buttress pier
- buttressing
- cane
- carrier
- carry
- case harden
- certify
- cervix
- circumstantiate
- column
- confirm
- corroborate
- corset
- counterfort
- counterpart
- cradle
- crook
- crutch
- cushion
- document
- embankment
- finance
- flying buttress
- fortify
- foundation garment
- fulcrum
- fund
- gird
- girdle
- give support
- groin
- guy
- guywire
- hanging buttress
- harden
- hold
- hold up
- invigorate
- jetty
- jock
- jockstrap
- jutty
- keep
- keep afloat
- keep up
- lend support
- mainstay
- maintain
- maintainer
- mast
- mole
- neck
- nerve
- pier
- pier buttress
- pillow
- probate
- prop
- prop up
- prove
- rampart
- ratify
- refresh
- reinforce
- reinforcement
- reinforcer
- reinvigorate
- rest
- resting place
- restrengthen
- retaining wall
- rigging
- seawall
- shore
- shore up
- shoulder
- shroud
- spine
- sprit
- staff
- standing rigging
- stave
- stay
- steel
- stick
- stiffen
- stiffener
- strengthen
- strengthener
- subsidize
- substantiate
- subvention
- subventionize
- support
- supporter
- sustain
- sustainer
- temper
- toughen
- underbrace
- undergird
- underlie
- underpin
- underpinning
- underset
- upbear
- uphold
- upholder
- upkeep
- validate
- verify
- walking stick
- warrant
chained_bear commented on the word buttress
Thanks, Weirdnet.
August 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word buttress
Female butter.
February 9, 2009
sionnach commented on the word buttress
Right. So I guess that mattress means female matter, address is a female adder, suppress a female supper, and that repress and redress are female reapers and readers, respectively.
February 9, 2009