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buttress::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buttressing |
| Type of | support |
| Has types | flying buttress, arc-boutant |
Examples of buttress
buttress
This would buttress the new monetary-policy framework for controlling inflation.
From the economist.com
Lansing Community College and Cooley Law School also buttress the downtown area.
From the freep.com
All of these notes were longer than 200 words, helping to buttress their point.
From the sacbee.com
The Utah Republican probably couldn't tell a flying buttress from a mansard roof.
From the washingtonpost.com
Prosecutors presented time sheets of a Veco employee to buttress their contention.
From the bloomberg.com
The government pledged to channel 920 billion yen to buttress domestic demand.
From the bloomberg.com
Seeking to buttress against the unwanted emotion, he picks on someone smaller.
From the guardian.co.uk
Knee and ribbon types may be combined with buttress roots at the base of the tree.
From the en.wikipedia.org
We have to look at ways that we can buttress those programs and make them solvent.
From the usatoday.com
- A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
- Reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church"
- Make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"
- A buttress is an architectural structure built against (a counterfort) or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. ...
- A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it; Anything that serves to support something; a prop; A buttress-root; A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff; To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress; To ...
- (Buttresses) Architectural structures, usually made of stone or brick, built against walls to add strength or support.
- (Buttresses) Flanges or bracket-like structures at the base of some rain forest trees. They are usually flattened extensions of the main lateral roots but in some cases, e.g. Ficus spp. and Syzygium gustavioides, they can be enlarged adventitious roots which have grown from the stem to the ground.
- (Buttresses) Part of the root comes with the log when the felling cut is positioned very low on the stump and which may cause difficulties in further processing.
- The raised portion of a shower curb that is on more than one level.
