buttress

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

buttressesbuttrice

1.
(architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
Đồng nghĩa: counterfort, brace
2.
(broadly)(by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3.
(botany) A buttress root.
4.
(climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress
Đồng nghĩa: crag, bluff
5.
(figuratively)(figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

buttresses

V_ing/Gerund

buttressing

V_ed/pp

buttressedbuttrice

1.
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
2.
(broadly, figuratively)(figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
Đồng nghĩa: corroborate, substantiate

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Đồng nghĩa

counterfortbrace crag bluff corroborate substantiate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

buttresslessbuttress rootbuttresslikeflying buttress

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Old French ars bouterez, from bouterez, oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from *bôtan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (to push). Ultimately cognate with beat.