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Mountain vs Counterfort - What's the difference?

mountain | counterfort |

As nouns the difference between mountain and counterfort

is that mountain is a large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 3048 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains while counterfort is a buttress built against a wall.

mountain

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.
    • Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
    We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains .
  • A large amount.
    • There's still a mountain of work to do.
  • (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain , partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.}}

    Derived terms

    * Chinese mountain cat * faith will move mountains * folded mountain * have a mountain to climb * if the mountain won't come to Muhammad * make a mountain out of a molehill * mountain ash * mountain bearberry * mountain bike * mountain boarding * mountain building * mountain buzzard * mountain cat * mountain chain * mountain climbing * mountain cranberry * mountain dew * mountain fever * mountain goat * mountain gorilla * mountain hare * mountain laurel * mountain lion * mountain range * mountain reindeer * mountain sheep * mountain sickness * mountain top removal mining * mountain unit * mountain zebra * mountaineer * mountaineering * mountainless * mountainous * mountainside * mountaintop * snow on the mountain * Stoliczka's mountain vole * table mountain * White Cloud Mountain minnow

    Related terms

    * mount

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "mountain") *

    References

    * *

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    counterfort

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A buttress built against a wall.
  • * 2011 , Gareth J. Hearn, Slope Engineering for Mountain Roads (ISBN 1862393311), page 209:
    • 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.
  • A spur of a mountain range.
  • * 1899 , Edward John Payne, History of the New World Called America: book II , page 428:
    • 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
  • * 1913 , Costa Rica-Panama arbitration: argument of Costa Rica , page 428:
    • 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)