Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈbʌtɹəs/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈbʌtrɪs/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈbʌ.tɹɪs/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  2. 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; a crag, a bluff.
  5. (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.

Verb

  1. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
  2. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

Exempel

  • Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses
  • All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
  • Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.
  • the ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipbuttressed
Imperfektbuttressed
Presensparticipbuttressing
Pluralbuttresses
Tredje person singular indicativ presensbuttresses

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