buttress 的 2 个定义
- any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- any prop or support.
- a thing shaped like a buttress, as a tree trunk with a widening base.
- a bony or horny protuberance, especially on a horse's hoof.
- to support by a buttress; prop up.
- to give encouragement or support to.
buttress 近义词
brace, support
support, bolster
更多buttress例句
- Definitions are, most often, ornaments of the understanding rather than its buttresses.
- Both buttress national identity, and both are concerned with equality.
- Nor is it certain that exports by energy companies would buttress U.S. diplomacy.
- We should buttress cooperative tribes again, with names like Dulaim, Isawi, Al bu Issa, among others.
- They build on their distinctive strengths, buttress and leverage their specific assets, attributes, and advantages.
- “McConnell is doing everything he can to buttress his support,” Mann said.
- Profiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave.
- It was an outside one, massive as a buttress, and Harry was building it well and truly, for it was the essential of the house.
- From the buttress foot a sheep-walk goes along the scarp—see, you can follow it from here in the dry grass.
- And drawing his cutlass from his belt, Michael bounded round the buttress behind which the young girl had promised to wait.
- Perhaps we shall be able to walk round into another cwm on the far side of North-west buttress.