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buttress 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈbətris/,
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buttresses, plural;
  1. Provide (a building or structure) with projecting supports built against its walls
    • - a buttressed wall
  2. Increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce
    • - authority was buttressed by religious belief
Noun
  1. A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall

  2. A projecting portion of a hill or mountain

  3. A source of defense or support
    • - there was a demand for a new stable order as a buttress against social collapse
  1. a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
  2. reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church"
  3. make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"
  4. A buttress is an architectural structure built against (a counterfort) or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. ...
  5. 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 ...
  6. (Buttresses) Architectural structures, usually made of stone or brick, built against walls to add strength or support.
  7. (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.
  8. (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.
  9. the raised portion of a shower curb that is on more than one level.
  10. A projecting structure, usually masonry or wood, supporting or giving stability to a wall.
  11. From the French bouter=to bear against, and used to describe a mass of brick or masonry which resists the outward pressure of a wall, arch or vault.
  12. A support, usually exterior, for a wall, arch, or vault, that opposes the lateral forces of these structures. A flying buttress consists of a strut or segment of an arch carrying the thrust of a vault to a vertical pier positioned away from the main portion of the building. ...
  13. A rock formation that projects out from the line of a face.
  14. An implant applied in such a manner as to press against a fragment and prevent its axial displacement under compressive physiological load, maintaining its reduction "out to length", is said to be functioning as a buttress. ...
  15. Ridge of wood that develops in the angle between a lateral root and the butt of a tree, which may extend up the stem to a considerable height (16).
  16. a flange protruding from the lower part of the trunk, frequent in rainforest trees.
  17. Wall projection for extra support; flying - narrow, arched bridge against the structure; pilaster - gradually recedes into the structure as it ascends.
  18. a projecting mass normally of brickwork or masonry that is used to support a structure; gives additional strength usually to counteract the outward thrust of an arch or vault. (IMAGE)
  19. Because the soil is not very fertile in rainforests, the taller trees have developed buttress roots. These roots give extra support for the tree, which is not able to grow deep rooting systems that such a tall tree would ordinarily grow to stabilize.
  20. A spur or projection on the side of a mountain.
  21. supporting outgrowth from base of a tree trunk as in some Rhizophoraceae and Moraceae
  22. Often associated with Gothic architecture. The out-jutting, or thickening of a wall to support an overhead beam or roof arch. Added support to oppose horizontal forces on tall walls.
  23. A projecting mass of masonry set at an angle to or bonded into a wall that it strengthens or supports. A buttress decreases in its cross-sectional area form top to base.
  24. a mass of brickwork or masonary which adds strength to a wall, countering the wall's tendency to thrust outward due to a high arching of its load.
  25. Something that provides support to a wall