Milestone Buttress (sense 4) on
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Noun
buttress (plural buttresses)
- (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Synonyms: counterfort, brace
- Hyponym: flying buttress
- Coordinate term: pilaster
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (botany) A buttress-root.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- Synonyms: crag, bluff
- Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress
2005, Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears, page 54:All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
2010, Tony Howard, Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, Jordan, →ISBN, page 84:Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
1692 October 30, Robert South, A Further Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience:the grand pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity
Translations
brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it
- Bulgarian: контрафорс (bg) m (kontrafors)
- Catalan: contrafort (ca) m
- Czech: opěrný pilíř m
- Dutch: stut (nl) m, steun (nl) m, beer (nl) m, steunbeer (nl) m
- Finnish: tukipilari (fi)
- French: arc-boutant (fr) m, contrefort (fr) m
- Galician: contraforte (gl) m
- German: Stützpfeiler (de) m, Strebepfeiler m, Gewölbepfeiler m, Pfeiler (de) m, Gegenlager n, Strebewerk n
- Greek: αντηρίδα (el) f (antirída)
- Italian: contrafforte (it) m, contrafforti (it) m, sperone (it) m
- Latin: erisma n
- Macedonian: потпорка f (potporka), контрафор m (kontrafor)
- Norwegian: støtte (no) m or f
- Ottoman Turkish: پاینده (payende, payanda)
- Polish: przypora (pl)
- Portuguese: botaréu (pt) m, contraforte (pt) m
- Romanian: contrafort (ro) n
- Russian: контрфорс (ru) m (kontrfors)
- Serbo-Croatian: potporanj (sh)
- Slovak: oporný pilier m
- Spanish: boterete m, contrafuerte (es) m, estantal (es) m, machón (es) m, estribo (es) m
- Swedish: stötta (sv), strävpelare (sv) c
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anything that serves to support something
- Armenian: նեցուկ (hy) (necʻuk), հենարան (hy) (henaran)
- Bulgarian: опора (bg) f (opora), подпора (bg) f (podpora)
- Czech: opora (cs) f
- Dutch: stut (nl) m, steun (nl) m
- Finnish: tuki (fi)
- French: appui (fr) m, corroboration (fr)
- German: Stütze (de) m, Strebe (de) f, Aussteifung f, Abstützung (de) f, Stempel (de) m
- Italian: supporto (it) m, corroborazione, sperone (it) m
- Macedonian: потпора f (potpora)
- Maori: hirinaki, whirinaki, kaumahaki (often refers to temporary supports)
- Norwegian: støtte (no) m or f
- Ottoman Turkish: پاینده (payende, payanda)
- Polish: podpora (pl) f
- Portuguese: contraforte (pt) m, apoio (pt) m, proteção (pt) f, anteparo (pt) m, reforço (pt) m
- Russian: подпорка (ru) f (podporka), опо́ра (ru) f (opóra)
- Serbo-Croatian: potporanj (sh), podupirač (sh)
- Spanish: sostén (es) m, apoyo (es) m, refuerzo (es) m
- Swedish: stötta (sv)
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feature jutting out from mountain; crag, bluff
Verb
buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
- Synonyms: corroborate, substantiate
2021 April 14, Diana B. Henriques, “Bernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Buttressed by elaborate account statements and a deep reservoir of trust from his investors and regulators, Mr. Madoff steered his fraud scheme safely through a severe recession in the early 1990s, a global financial crisis in 1998 and the anxious aftermath of the terrorist attacks in September 2001.
Translations
support something physically with, or as if with, a buttress
support something or someone by supplying evidence