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buttress
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but·tress
/ ˈbətris/
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n.
a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall.
∎ fig.
a source of defense or support:
there was a demand for a new stable order as a buttress against social collapse.
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v. [tr.]
provide (a building or structure) with projecting supports built against its walls:
[as adj.] (buttressed)
a buttressed wall.
∎ fig.
increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce:
authority was buttressed by religious belief.
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Enterprise Florida; a user's guide. (includes interview with Steve Buttress)
Magazine article from: Florida Trend; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...an entrepreneurial incubator. Steve Buttress has learned at least one thing since...is substantially more complex," says Buttress, who previously headed Nebraska's...tugs have certainly complicated life for Buttress, 52. A genial man, he's had the...
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Publication No. EP2090244 Published on Aug. 19, Assigned to Ethicon Endo Surgery for Buttress Retention Feature Surgical End Effector (American Inventors)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/22/2009; 481 words
; ...developed a surgical end effector having buttress retention features. The patent has been...European Patent Office, "A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical...properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various...
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Publication No. EP2090237 Published on Aug. 19, Assigned to Ethicon Endo Surgery for Buttress Material (American Inventors)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/24/2009; 504 words
; ...all from the U.S., have developed a buttress material for a surgical instrument...European Patent Office, "A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical...properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various...
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Conversational Maxims and Scaffolded Learning in Children with Learning Disabilities: Is the Flying Buttress a Better Metaphor?
Magazine article from: Journal of Learning Disabilities; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...history knows, the flying buttress made possible the rapid...metaphor is that the flying buttress did not serve only as...Instead, the flying buttress became an integral part...of adults building "buttresses" for a child's learning...
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Publication No. EP2090231 Published on Aug. 19, Assigned to Ethicon Endo-Surgery for Activatable Adhesive Buttress Material (American Inventors)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/22/2009; 470 words
; ...both of the U.S., have developed a buttress material with an activatable adhesive...European Patent Office, "A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical...properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various...
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Publication No. EP2090248 Published on Aug. 19, Assigned to Ethicon Endo Surgery for Alignment, Retention Feature Buttress Material (American Inventors)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/22/2009; 484 words
; ...all from the U.S., have developed a buttress material with alignment and retention...European Patent Office, "A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical...properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various...
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Synovis Life Technologies Receives U.S. Patent for Circular Buttress Technology.
PR Newswire; 10/31/2006; 700+ words
; ...patent for its Peri-Strips(R) circular stapler buttress. This buttress, like the linear version pioneered by Synovis...that can cause surgical complications. The circular buttress has applications in bariatric surgery to treat morbid...
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New York Inventor Develops Buttress Stabilization Apparatus
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/19/2008; 500 words
; ...N.Y., has developed a method for buttress stabilization. An abstract of the invention...includes the steps of leaning one or more buttress stands against a rear fender area of...rear end of the vehicle from one of the buttress stands to another, tightening the slack...
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Restoration project rescues abbey buttress
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 8/8/2006; 473 words
; ...Heritage. One of two surviving flying buttresses at Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley...after becoming distorted. The buttress supports the magnificent three...manager John Ward, said: "The buttresses are such delicate features, it...
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Massachusetts Inventor Develops Anterior Buttress Staple
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/28/2008; 458 words
; ...Mass., has developed an anterior buttress staple. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anterior buttress staple and screw system is provided that...migration out of the spinal column. The buttress staple comprises a screw locking plate...
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buttress
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...other elements. Types of buttress are:angle-buttress (3) : one of a pair of buttresses at the corner of a building...buttresses are used. Pier-buttresses are often constructed...springing of the flying-buttress arch;Romanesque buttress...
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flying buttress
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
flying buttress see buttress .
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pier-buttress
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
pier-buttress. Pier so constructed to resist the thrust of a flying buttress , thus giving the latter support.
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hanging-buttress
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
hanging-buttress. Not a true buttress , but put there to maintain a sequence or series, and carried on a corbel . It might also help in the construction of a vault , and in such a case will have elements responding to the ribs .
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angle-buttress
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
angle-buttress. See buttress .
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