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Definition of Buttress

1. Noun. A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.

2. Verb. Reinforce with a buttress. "Buttress the church"

3. Verb. Make stronger or defensible. "Buttress your thesis"

Definition of Buttress

1. n. A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

2. v. t. To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

Definition of Buttress

1. Noun. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. ¹

2. Noun. Anything that serves to support something; a prop. ¹

3. Noun. (botany) A buttress-root. ¹

4. Noun. (context: climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff. ¹

5. Verb. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. ¹

6. Verb. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Buttress

1. to prop up [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Buttress

1. A flange of tissue protruding from the main outline of the base of a tree. (09 Oct 1997)

Literary usage of Buttress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"buttress Charente, and many more could be named; thus, the great nave of the abbey church at Vézelay has a system of flying buttresses and large ..."

2. The Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture by Henry Moseley, Dennis Hart Mahan (1875)
"In Gothic buildings the thickness of a buttress is not unfrequently made to vary at two or ... Such buttress is represented in the accompanying figure. ..."

3. Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the by Heinrich Schliemann (1875)
"Increased number of workmen — Further uncovering of the great buttress— Traces of a supposed small temple — Objects found on its site — Terra-cotta ..."

4. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1889)
"Should several pressures abut against the buttress, the force P acting in the ... Let G be the centre of gravity of that part of the buttress which is above ..."

5. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"A FLYING buttress, as usually constructed, is a half arch springing from the buttress of the aisle wall, and abutting the clerestory wall. ..."

6. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"This line, passing through the center of gravity of the buttress, ... buttress with Offsets Fig. 4. Resultant Thrust on with Offsets раке« »9б and 314 to ..."

7. Stereotomy by Arthur Willard French, Howard Chapin Ives (1902)
"In front of and forming a part of this wall is a buttress. The base of the buttress is in the same horizontal plane as the base of the wall; the faces and ..."

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