Buttresses

Word BUTTRESSES
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Definitions and meanings of "Buttresses"

What do we mean by buttresses?

A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

Anything that serves to support something; a prop.

A buttress-root.

A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

Anything that supports or strengthens.

A verbal fortress one builds around onesself consisting of the word "but" to forgo or avoid doing something or going somewhere. Urban Dictionary

A mistress for butt pleasures. A sex slave for butt stuff. Urban Dictionary

1. a pejorative referrring to an undesirable person 2. an obscure object on which to climb in Tomb Raider: Underworld. 3. a type of root structure found on some rainforest trees 4. a support found on the side of tall buildings Urban Dictionary

A mattress for your butt. Urban Dictionary

A Large mammal that uses exagerated hand movements while speaking. This mammal is known for its alcoholic binges and good smelling purges. The buttress is usually seen in the Kansas-Missouri region when he is not eating massive amounts of sour punch straws in Texas. Urban Dictionary

A physical act that involves running at your target, usually another person, then jumping and twisting in such a way that your ass lands as high up on their body as possible (preferrably the face). This act can be performed from a higher location, such as a bench or car, in order to get your ass as close to the target's face as possible. The only requirements to qualify as a Flying Buttress are that your feet leave the ground, and that your ass hits the target before any other part of your body. A knockdown is considered a bonus. Urban Dictionary

The act of leaning forward over the toilet with one or more hands on the wall in front of you to support your weight while you attempt to urinate. This act is usually related to morning wood as it requires either extreme downward force or tilting of the entire body to properly aim before urinating. Urban Dictionary

The funniest term you'll ever hear in architecture history classes. Urban Dictionary

1. n. A combination of a witch, a prostitute, and a waitress. They usually fly around on brooms in decent restaraunts that have dim lighting scenarios. If you're lucky enough to find one, she'll cackle while serving you your over-easy burger and banging you, before flying away on her broom, never to be seen again. 2. n. A stewardess who is well known among passengers and crew to provide low-cost (or free) anal sex in the latrine. Urban Dictionary

A foursome with two women and two men where the men stand back to back hands raised above their heads grasping the each others hands for support. The women stand in front of both men and bend over and touch the floor. The men proceed to have sex with them from behind. Urban Dictionary

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The word "buttresses" in example sentences

Basically you cut away low branches and remove the buttresses from the bottom of the trunk. ❋ Tobias Jones (2010)

Halperin buttresses his defense with a call for historians to engage in a valiant struggle: "to work against his or her intuitions, to counter them with hard-won apprehension of irreducible historical difference" (15). ❋ Unknown (2006)

The weathered and channelled backs of five of the buttresses are the same date as those south of the nave; but the easternmost one has a flat raking back like those to the north and south of the choir and presbytery. ❋ Hubert C. Corlette (N/A)

For our bones within us are but inside walls and buttresses, that is to say, houses constructed of lime and stone, as it were, by coral insects; and our houses without us are but outside bones, a kind of exterior skeleton or shell, so that we perish of cold if permanently and suddenly deprived of the coverings which warm us and cherish us, as the wing of a hen cherishes her chickens. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

Close to one third of my project was retaining walls, buttresses and voids. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the columns inside rose to impossible heights, dwarfing worshipers as they stood meekly below; flying buttresses supported huge, broken-arched ceilings, which seemed by their very construction to reach, no, to be the heights of heaven. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

A second fondant-covered Styrofoam layer buttresses another, smaller chocolate cake. ❋ Kelly DiNardo (2011)

I continued to write successful books, and in sociological controversy I saw my opponents confuted with the facts of the times that daily reared new buttresses to my intellectual position. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I concluded that Miljenko Jergovic could not be held responsible for the inanities of someone chosen by others to write about his book, so, free entirely of external buttresses -- including the remainder of Alcalay's introduction -- I did read Sarajevo Marlboro. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Daylight knew also his history, the prime old American stock from which he had descended, his own war record, the John Dowsett before him who had been one of the banking buttresses of the Cause of the Union, the Commodore Dowsett of the War of 1812 the General Dowsett of ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hence the Romans developed buttresses and heavy thick walls to counteract this outward-pushing lateral force. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During the Renaissance, Italian engineers/architects developed the concept of a tension ring around the base of the dome, which helped eliminate the need of buttresses or other lateral reinforcement at the base. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dan would have gone [waterskiing] with us, but he whipped his usual buttress of excuses at us. Mary's concocted a very [shrewd] buttress to get her out of her [blind date] with Dan. ❋ MikeC16958 (2008)

He yelled “bring in [the buttress]” and in they [walked in] [shackles] ready for their master. ❋ 2funny4you (2019)

1. "give me anymore of that [gibberellins] and i'll slap ye, ya fucking [Buttress]" 2. *you need to climb on [the buttress]...* ".................................................what the fuck is [buttress]?" 3. "whooooa!! check out those sexy buttress roots on that tree" 4. "my treehouse fell down 'cause some johnny wanker nicked my buttress. i'm gonna put gibberellins in his petrol tank" ❋ Gibberellins (2009)

"[This chair] hurts. I need a buttress." "[May I] [volunteer]?" ❋ Queen Buttrix (2015)

Dude, what's up with [the buttress]? I don't know dude, he has been sucking trying to explain physics to that [three year old] for like 30 minutes...I think his [hand gestures] are making the kid cry. I know dude, maybe he is raping that poor child ❋ McMichael VanWasson (2003)

Everyone [feared] [Tony's] Flying Buttress' because he usually performed them [without pants]. ❋ CubanAso (2006)

"I had [morning wood] so bad that I had to [pull a] Flying Buttress when I went to [take a piss]." ❋ Akula0812 (2007)

Teacher: In Gothic-style cathedrals and [churches], you will often see a lot of [flying] buttresses. Students: *[snicker]* ❋ ButtressMan69 (2009)

[E1]: Johnny: Dude, we should hit up [Red Robin] tonight-I just got dumped and I'm feeling lonely. Chuck: So what's that have to do with Red Robin? Johnny: Well, last week, Chris said he saw a few flying buttresses there. Chuck: I've [got the keys]. Lets go. E2: Tommy: We should fly Delta this year. Jake: Why's that, bro? Tommy: I hear they've got some good flying buttresses. Jake: Delta it is! ❋ Definition Mastur (2013)

[Hey buddy], if you are down I just convinced two girls to come home with us and [rock out] [the flying buttress]. ❋ Diesel Goes To Hollywood (2009)

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