Buttress vs Abutment - What's the difference?
buttress | abutment |
(architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
(botany) A buttress-root.
(climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
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(figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
* South
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
(engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
(engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
The state of abutting.
(architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
(dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
In architecture terms the difference between buttress and abutment
is that buttress is a brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it while abutment is that element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.As a verb buttress
is to support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.buttress
English
(wikipedia buttress)Noun
(es)- 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 caƱons 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
Derived terms
* flying buttressSynonyms
* counterfortSee also
* nunatakVerb
(es)abutment
English
Noun
(en noun)- The fulcrum acted as an abutment .