buttress

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

   “It was decided, therefore, to build eight concrete buttresses from the new strengthening work to safeguard the general stability of the wall along the length where the greatest movement had taken place.”

2. isim Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3. isim A buttress root.
4. isim A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.

   “Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress”

5. isim Anything that supports or strengthens.

   “the grand pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity”

6. fiil To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
7. fiil To support something or someone by supplying evidence.