buttressとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• buttrice

語源

From Old French ars bouterez (noun, literally “supporting arcs”), from bouterez (adj), oblique plural of bouteret (まれに in the singular), from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɹəs/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɹɪs/

名詞

buttress (複数形 buttresses)

1. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

   Synonyms: counterfort, brace

   Hyponym: flying buttress

   Coordinate term: pilaster

2. (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3. (botany) A buttress-root.
4. (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.

   Synonyms: crag, bluff

   Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress

   • 2005, Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears, page 54:

     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.

   • 2010, Tony Howard, Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, Jordan, →ISBN, page 84:

     Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.

5. (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.
   • 1692 October 30, Robert South, A Further Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience:

     the grand pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity

派生語

• flying buttress

動詞

buttress (三人称単数 現在形 buttresses, 現在分詞 buttressing, 過去形および過去分詞形 buttressed)

1. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
2. (figuratively, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

   Synonyms: corroborate, substantiate

   • 2021 April 14, Diana B. Henriques, “Bernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Buttressed by elaborate account statements and a deep reservoir of trust from his investors and regulators, Mr. Madoff steered his fraud scheme safely through a severe recession in the early 1990s, a global financial crisis in 1998 and the anxious aftermath of the terrorist attacks in September 2001.