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Sentence count:63+1Posted:2017-02-25Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: buttressingSimilar words: mattressstressactressstressedwaitressdistressstressfuldistressingMeaning: ['bʌtrɪs]  n. a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building. v. 1. reinforce with a buttress 2. make stronger or defensible. 
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31. The massive - head buttress dam has some attractive features for certain locations.
32. Multi-arch dam is one of light buttress dams and its capping plate shows arch.
33. Lofty buildings with beautiful stained glass, the early Christian cathedrals tended to collapse suddenly, with unfortunate results for those inside, until the invention of the flying buttress.
34. She would continue, faithful and reliable, to buttress up Miss Bulstrode's successor.
35. Since then, most key indicators have served to buttress OPEC's argument.
36. For some sections that de- flection was expected smaller, installation of buttress wall will provide little contribution in reducing the ground movement.
37. This is because the architects have learned some new ways of making roofs and of supporting walls, especially the ribbed vault and the flying buttress.
38. Britain has released satellite data to buttress its case that the personnel were in Iraqi waters.
39. The rationale for an inferior screw close to the calcar is that the inferior cortex can act as a buttress for an adjacent screw if good screw purchase in the femoral head is obtained.
40. Other developments were the pointed arch and vault, and the flying buttress, which allowed construction of more elegant, higher, and apparently lighter structures.
41. These accumulated over time , along with personal experiences, to buttress 2 my own developing sense of values.
42. In the 1980 s this concept was used to buttress several so - called sectoral reciprocity proposals.
43. The trend that economic globalization and service trade liberalization complement and buttress each other is irreversible.
44. A wisely tempered tribunate is the strongest buttress of a good constitution, but if it has the least degree of power beyond what is necessary, it will overthrow everything.
45. Four flying buttress shapes support a central vessel, which supplies hydrostatically pressured water to nozzles ate inner portion of the structure.
46. Four flying buttress shapes support a central vessel, which supplies hydrostatically pressured water to nozzles at the inner portion of the structure.
47. A small turret or spire on a roof or buttress.
48. Its characteristic features include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress.
49. From this photo, you can see another characteristic of Gothic building: Flying buttress.
50. The volar buttress plate has long been established as the standard treatment for fractures with volar angulation.
51. Chongqing has historically relied heavily upon military industry to buttress regional economics.
52. We have to buttress up the old church as it is beginning to lean.
53. The Greeks were the first to make a virtue of its improbability. Taormina looks as though it is mounted on a buttress, 900ft high.
54. He sought to buttress some of his arguments with quotations from Mein Kampf.
55. The leaf axis arises from the leaf buttress and maintains procambial continuity in the central region.
56. Conclusions: The posteromedial approach offers an effective technique for fracture reduction and buttress plate fixation of large posterior malleolar fragments.
57. The rib vault, flying buttress[Sentence dictionary], and pointed (Gothic) arch were used as solutions to the problem of building a very tall structure while preserving as much natural light as possible.
58. A UN trial could improve America's negative reputation around the globe, and at least buttress Bush's lame, ex post facto claim the invasion of Iraq was all about human rights.
59. But the release of the report is expected to buttress efforts by the U.S and European countries to impose new financial sanctions on Iran.
60. Its main features include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress.
More similar words: mattressstressactressstressedwaitressdistressstressfuldistressingpressduressdress upjoint resolutionaddressregressredresspress forexpresscompressdepressdigressdressedimpressrepresstigresssuppressoppresspressingCongresspressureprogress
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