buttresses in English
The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls.
a buttressed wall
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1. Stabilizing Notre Dame's Famous Buttresses
2. Flying Buttresses on York Cathedral
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4. Structural Buttresses of the Human Skull
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6. However, innovative features such as buttresses, flying buttresses, rib vaulting, and pinnacles enabled builders to reach new heights.
7. I'll bet her buttresses are pretty hardcore.
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9. The buttresses are subjected to constant stress.
10. What does Buttresses mean? Plural form of buttress
11. What does Buttressed mean? Having buttresses or supports
12. The lateral sections, between buttresses, are occupied by 16 chapels.
13. ‘The pub itself has been strengthened by Buttresses to stop the subsidence worsening, and survived the tremor unscathed.’ ‘They saw huge caverns, their roofs supported by great natural Buttresses and pillars of rock.’ ‘The handsome and much-photographed chimneys doubled as Buttresses …
14. Le Fort 2 involves inferior lateral maxillary, superior medial maxillary Buttresses
15. Buttresses can be made out of stone, concrete, or reinforced concrete
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17. Continental buttresses are largely made up of rocks of secondary igneous origin.
18. Le Fort 1 involves inferior portions of lateral and medial maxillary Buttresses
19. Unique among the Wren churches, the east and west walls had buttresses.
20. The large barn, supported by stone buttresses, may have been the charcoal store.
21. It has diagonal buttresses and, on the west face, a four-light window.
22. The structures are Buttresses that hold up the building; they're not just decorative
23. Buttresses are widely used to reinforce walls during the restoration of architectural monuments.
24. The flying Buttresses in this building are not like the original Gothic style.
25. Le Fort 3 involves upper transverse maxillary, superior lateral and medial maxillary Buttresses
26. Mr Collins says the Lady Catherine's buttresses are the talk of the county.
27. On every hand was a charming view of rocky buttresses and wooded heights.
28. Angle Buttresses, like clasping Buttresses, support walls at the corner but in essence by building each wall out beyond the corner, so that in plan the corner in fact is a cross shape.
29. In addition to their practical functions, Buttresses can be decorative, both in their own
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31. Buttressed definition: held up by braces or buttresses synonyms: braced, supported antonyms: unsupported, unprepared, unwarranted
32. Buttress definition: Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall
33. The 'thrust' of weight from the roof is the main reason why Buttresses were used in …
34. Synonyms for Buttresses include supports, braces, strengthens, upholds, sustains, bolsters, underpins, shores up, bears and carries
35. After the conquest of Constantinople, Mimar Sinan also added Buttresses and minarets to support the structure
36. Buttresses[edit] A buttressis a reinforcing structure that prevents a wall from bowing outwards and collapsing
37. The layout is a solid one with thick, cellular walls and tall buttresses with chapels between.
38. The upper floors are divided by flat buttresses, the edges are trimmed and have historicizing design elements.
39. One of the most exciting developments in road-car aerodynamics is the increasing use of flying Buttresses
40. The buttresses of all grades are black and the gullies are trickling away into the valley streams.
41. Openable vehicle roof comprising a soft top provided with flying buttresses and method for the operation thereof
42. Flanking the steps are two Buttresses each crowned with an 11 foot tall tripod carved from pink Tennessee marble
43. The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet.
44. Two square halls would give the effect. externally. of solid massive buttresses, while internally they would serve as picture galleries.
45. At the base of the roof ran an open Balustrade, broken at intervals by the pinnacles which crowned the buttresses
46. The flying Buttresses utilize a hexagonal hub, so that every wing of the building has its own core and columns
47. Before Buttresses came into use, walls had to be very thick to support the weight of a church and its roof
48. Doors, windows, buttresses and Archivolts are built in stone, steeples are brick, just like, occasionally, the upper section of the church
49. Four Buttresses on the west side of Hagia Sophia were built after the Latin occupation in the 13th century in Constantinople
50. Doors, windows, buttresses and Archivolts are built in stone, steeples are brick, just like, occasionally, the upper section of the church