different between buttress vs reinforcement

English

Alternative forms

• buttrice

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t??s/

Noun

buttress (plural 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
5. (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.

Derived terms

• flying buttress

Translations

Verb

buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle 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

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Further reading

• buttress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• betrusts

English

Alternative forms

• re-enforcement, reenforcement, reënforcement

Etymology

From reinforce +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??n?f??(?)sm?nt/
• Homophone: reenforcement

Noun

reinforcement (countable and uncountable, plural reinforcements)

1. (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
2. (countable) A thing that reinforces.
3. (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
4. (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.

Derived terms

• negative reinforcement
• positive reinforcement
• primary reinforcement

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See also

• punishment
• operant conditioning
• classical conditioning