Buttress vs Supporter - What's the difference?
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(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.
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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.
A person who gives support to someone or something.
# A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause or movement; an adherent.
# A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant participating in a ceremony or procession.
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# (sports) Someone who is a fan of a certain sports team or sportsperson.
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Something that supports another thing.
# Something that supports a structure such as a building or a sculpture.
# (heraldry) An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms.
# A garter worn around the leg to support a sock or stocking.
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Buttress is a related term of supporter.
As nouns the difference between buttress and supporter
is that buttress is (architecture) a brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it while supporter is a person who gives support to someone or something.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 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
Derived terms
* flying buttressSynonyms
* counterfortSee also
* nunatakVerb
(es)supporter
English
(wikipedia supporter)Noun
(en noun)- There were 10,000 supporters in the last match.
- From the radiator, where he was attaching supporters to his socks, Zooey glanced up at her.