I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flying buttress
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flying
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Between the chapels radiate the forests of flying buttresses .
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Those at Canterbury are among the earliest datable flying buttresses .
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Moreover, in the building of the great Gothic cathedrals many new devices were introduced, including flying buttresses .
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It is an architectural cathedral, long and low on the exterior with geometrical traceried windows and simple flying buttresses .
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All are lofty with high vaults supported by flying buttress schemes.
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A flying buttress transmits thrust rather then resisting it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above lies 40 feet of delicate arête, poised on the crest of the buttress .
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Between the chapels radiate the forests of flying buttresses.
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For centuries it has been a buttress against the onslaught of Chaos from the wastes to the north.
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Moreover, in the building of the great Gothic cathedrals many new devices were introduced, including flying buttresses.
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On a sunny evening you can stay to catch the last of the sun's rays highlighting Scafell's famous buttresses.
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The buttresses of all grades are black and the gullies are trickling away into the valley streams.
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There was a narrow stone path, Alexei now saw, around the base of the promontory beyond the buttress .
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Two square halls would give the effect. externally. of solid massive buttresses, while internally they would serve as picture galleries.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kotkin gave statistics to buttress his argument.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the government's recent promise to give the central bank independence should buttress its authority in the markets.
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It reformed the judicial system, buttressing its independence, and introduced parliamentary scrutiny of important public sector contracts and appointments.
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Others had been Jacked and buttressed.
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The example of Phil Gramm, who had a large war chest but could not move voters, buttressed his argument.
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The resistance is buttressed by dim understanding of how a decentralized approach can improve matters.
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These effectively buttressed the sector against the kind of cutthroat competition raging amongst operators.
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To last for very long any social system needs to be buttressed by a powerful integrating ideology.