Counterfort vs Buttress - What's the difference?
counterfort | buttress | Synonyms |
A buttress built against a wall.
* 2011 , Gareth J. Hearn, Slope Engineering for Mountain Roads (ISBN 1862393311), page 209:
A spur of a mountain range.
* 1899 , Edward John Payne, History of the New World Called America: book II , page 428:
* 1913 , Costa Rica-Panama arbitration: argument of Costa Rica , page 428:
(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.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
* 2010 , Tony Howard, Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, Jordan , ISBN-13: 9781852842543, page 84:
(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.
Buttress is a synonym of counterfort.
As nouns the difference between counterfort and buttress
is that counterfort is a buttress built against a wall while buttress is a brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.As a verb buttress is
to support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.counterfort
English
Noun
(en noun)- The soil above the base of a reinforced concrete cantilever or counterfort wall is included as part of the weight of the wall in stability calculations.
- This angle is buttressed from the interior by an enormous counterfort of lower mountain country, extending several hundred miles to the eastward, forming the main part of the highlands of Bolivia, and separating the tributaries of the Amazon
- The physical impossibility of the line along the counterfort' or mountain range from Punta Mona was easily demonstrated, for the very simple reason that no such ' counterfort or mountain range existed.
References
* (The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language) (1882)buttress
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(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
