Uphold vs Buttress - What's the difference?
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To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
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To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
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To support by approval or encouragement.
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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.
As verbs the difference between uphold and buttress
is that uphold is to hold up; to lift on high; to elevate while buttress is to support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.As a noun buttress is
(architecture) a brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.uphold
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- but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.
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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
