Definizione monolingua

buttress

buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)

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.

buttress (plural buttresses)

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.

   Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses

   Milestone Buttress on Tryfan. The direct route is highlighted.

   • 2005, Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears, page 54:

     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.

   • 2010, Tony Howard, Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, Jordan, ISBN-13: 9781852842543, page 84:

     Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.

Definizione dizionario buttress

	contrafforte
	brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it
	Elemento architettonico che rafforza una struttura, assorbendo le spinte scaricate su di essa.
	Architectural element that reinforces structure, absorbing the forces discharged on it.

	appoggiare
	support something or someone by supplying evidence

	sostenere
	support something or someone by supplying evidence

	contrafforti
	brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it

	corroborare
	support something or someone by supplying evidence

	corroborazione
	anything that serves to support something

	rafforzare
	support something or someone by supplying evidence

	supporto
	anything that serves to support something

poggiare

rinfianco

sostegno

sperone

Altri significati:

(climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

support something physically with, or as if with, a buttress

Anything that serves to support something; a prop.

(architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

(botany) A buttress-root.