Buttress
noun
A support or prop, especially on the outside of a building.
The medieval cathedral relied on stone buttresses to remain upright.
Often appears as...
- flying buttress
- temporary buttress
Usage tips
Architectural
verb
To provide support or reinforcement to something.
She buttressed her argument with solid facts.
Often appears as...
- buttress an argument
- buttress the economy
noun
A natural formation of rock or earth that looks like a prop or support.
The buttress roots of the fig tree spread out in all directions.
Often appears as...
- buttress root
- buttress of earth
Usage tips
Botanical
noun
A support or prop, especially on the outside of a building.
The medieval cathedral relied on stone buttresses to remain upright.
Often appears as...
- flying buttress
- temporary buttress
Usage tips
Architectural
verb
To provide support or reinforcement to something.
She buttressed her argument with solid facts.
Often appears as...
- buttress an argument
- buttress the economy
noun
A natural formation of rock or earth that looks like a prop or support.
The buttress roots of the fig tree spread out in all directions.
Often appears as...
- buttress root
- buttress of earth
Usage tips
Botanical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Architectural Term
Used in construction and architecture to describe physical supports for structures.
Architects often design modern buildings with hidden buttresses.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Use
Common in Gothic architecture, it adds beauty and strength to buildings.
The old church was adorned with intricate buttresses.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to indicate support in a non-physical sense.
His friends served as emotional buttresses during tough times.
Pro Tip 1/3Architectural Term
Used in construction and architecture to describe physical supports for structures.
Architects often design modern buildings with hidden buttresses.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Use
Common in Gothic architecture, it adds beauty and strength to buildings.
The old church was adorned with intricate buttresses.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to indicate support in a non-physical sense.
His friends served as emotional buttresses during tough times.
Pro Tip 1/3Architectural Term
Used in construction and architecture to describe physical supports for structures.
Architects often design modern buildings with hidden buttresses.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Use
Common in Gothic architecture, it adds beauty and strength to buildings.
The old church was adorned with intricate buttresses.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to indicate support in a non-physical sense.
His friends served as emotional buttresses during tough times.
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Video examples
An illustrated kingdom...
to clearly isolate a single tree. And so together, we decided to give good old painting a shot. And to tell you the truth, even when I was standing there right in front of them, it was difficult to see the entire tree. So instead I'd study the buttress up close
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The sharks that hunt in...
crutch-like prop roots or wavy buttress roots, to support themselves in their unsteady terrain. These newly established mangroves have to contend with two additional seawater is high in dehydrating and potentially toxic salt,
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Gorgeous Video: Rock...
it's been really cool to experience all these kind of different perspectives on you know landscape that's really different the climb that we did of this huge buttress above the village of sibi
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Chimpanzee Cannibalism PIPE...
The attack is on! To intimidate their opponents, the aggressors scream and drum on buttress roots.
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An illustrated kingdom...
to clearly isolate a single tree. And so together, we decided to give good old painting a shot. And to tell you the truth, even when I was standing there right in front of them, it was difficult to see the entire tree. So instead I'd study the buttress up close
Video examples
The sharks that hunt in...
crutch-like prop roots or wavy buttress roots, to support themselves in their unsteady terrain. These newly established mangroves have to contend with two additional seawater is high in dehydrating and potentially toxic salt,
Video examples
Gorgeous Video: Rock...
it's been really cool to experience all these kind of different perspectives on you know landscape that's really different the climb that we did of this huge buttress above the village of sibi
Video examples
Chimpanzee Cannibalism PIPE...
The attack is on! To intimidate their opponents, the aggressors scream and drum on buttress roots.
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Peter Mandelson
British Politician
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
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James McBride
American Writer
Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
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David Longstreth
American Musician
Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
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J. M. Roberts
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Andrew Breitbart
American Businessman
Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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Marquis de Sade
French Novelist
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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Gayle Lynds
American Author
Use plot to buttress a story.
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Peter Mandelson
British Politician
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
Quote examples
James McBride
American Writer
Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
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David Longstreth
American Musician
Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.
Quote examples
Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
Quote examples
J. M. Roberts
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Andrew Breitbart
American Businessman
Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
Quote examples
John Ruskin
English Writer
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
Quote examples
Marquis de Sade
French Novelist
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Quote examples
Gayle Lynds
American Author
Use plot to buttress a story.
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