different between cantilever vs corbel

English

Alternative forms

• cantalever, cantaliver (dated)

Etymology

First attested in the 1660s, probably from cant (“slope”) + lever, but the earliest form (c. 1610) was cantlapper. First element may also be Spanish can (“dog”), an architect's term for an end of timber jutting out of a wall, on which beams rested.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kant?li?v?/

Noun

cantilever (plural cantilevers)

1. (architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
   • 1951, Sinclair Lewis, World So Wide, Chapter ,^[1]

     He loved Litchfield, Sharon, Williamsburg; he preferred the Georgian, and he had theories about developing a truly American style. He was called a plodder by all the Kivis, and in turn he disliked their bleak blocks of Modernist cement, their glass-fronted hen-houses, their architectural spiders with cantilever claws.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 10,

     The service stairs were next to the main stairs, separated only by a wall, but what a difference there was between them: the narrow back stairs, dangerously unrailed, under the bleak gleam of a skylight, each step worn down to a steep hollow, turned tightly in a deep grey shaft; whereas the great main sweep, a miracle of cantilevers, dividing and joining again, was hung with the portraits of prince-bishops, and had ears of corn in its wrought-iron banisters that trembled to the tread.

2. A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
3. (figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.

Derived terms

• cantileverage
• cantilever bra
• cantilever brake
• cantilever bridge

Translations

Verb

cantilever (third-person singular simple present cantilevers, present participle cantilevering, simple past and past participle cantilevered)

1. To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.

Further reading

• cantilever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• trivalence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??b?l/

Noun

corbel (plural corbels)

1. (architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

Translations

Related terms

• corbelling
• corbie step
• corbel arch
• ledger

Verb

corbel (third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle corbelling or corbeling, simple past and past participle corbelled or corbeled)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Derived terms

• corbel out

Anagrams

• Cobler, cobler

Old French

Etymology

Either a diminutive of corp (“raven”), corf, or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, from Latin corvus (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus).

Noun

corbel m (oblique plural corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative singular corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative plural corbel)

1. crow (bird)

Descendants

• English: corbel
• Middle French: corbeau
  • French: corbeau