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Meanings of buttress in English

Russian
контрфорс
Portuguese
contraforte
Spanish
contrafuerte
Catalan
contraforts
Wikidata

Architectural structure, usually of masonry, built to strengthen or support walls or resist the lateral thrust of vaults.

        контрфорс
        Portuguese
        contraforte
        Catalan
        esperó

        A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.

              contraforte
              Usage of buttress in English
              1
              Meanwhile, the State continues to buttress the better-off with free tuition fees.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Tipperary buttress their lead and the reporters have found their turning point.
              The Irish Times
              3
              Haldane even cites the highest of all authorities to buttress this idea:
              The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
              4
              The following day we studied our line on the tower's southeast buttress.
              Climbing Magazine
              5
              We rounded the buttress only to find that the chase had vanished.
              Stories from Everybody's Magazine
              6
              Close to the ground on the south-west corner buttress are two string-courses.
              Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) / A...
              7
              Italian lenders are increasingly betting on insurance to buttress weakening banking revenues.
              Reuters
              8
              I got astride of the buttress, and painfully forced my way up.
              Wilfrid Cumbermede
              9
              Hiding themselves behind a buttress, they awaited his coming in breathless silence.
              Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
              10
              Three women alone would have to buttress their authority with such trappings.
              Key Out of Time
              11
              Ahead, a rounded buttress curved around the corner of the training yard.
              Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
              12
              A smear of fresh blood coated the trunk of a buttress tree.
              Sacrifice
              13
              Both sides of the debate say scientific studies buttress their points.
              Reuters
              14
              He used a facile mixture of fact and opinion to buttress his conclusions.
              The Complete Rama Omnibus
              15
              They both drive economic growth and also buttress the political system.
              The Guardian
              16
              Ethics legislation was supposed to buttress the public's confidence in politics.
              The Irish Times
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              Translations for buttress
              Portuguese
              contraforte
              Buttress through the time
              Buttress across language varieties
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