different between nunatak vs buttress

English

Alternative forms

• nunataq

Etymology

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n?tæk/, /?nu?n?tæk/
• Hyphenation: nun?a?tak

Noun

nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)

1. A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]

Translations

See also

• monadnock

Further reading

• nunatak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kuantan

Danish

Etymology

Greenlandic nunataq

Noun

nunatak

1. nunatak

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Noun

nunatak m (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)

1. nunatak

Declension

Swedish

Alternative forms

• nunatack

Etymology

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???na?tak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Noun

nunatak c

1. (geology) nunatak

Declension

References

• nunatak in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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

Translations

Further reading

• buttress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• betrusts