0 a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building -- 撐牆，扶壁
1 to build buttresses to support a building or structure -- 建扶壁加固
They underpinned devotion to relics and images, fostered the widespread use (and misuse) of sacramentals, and buttressed the thriving tradition of pilgrimage to prominent shrines.
Extraction was limited to trees 70 cm dbh (diameter at 1.4 m height or above buttresses), which was 10 cm above the legal limit.
The community of values buttresses the argument that there existed a special ' policy community ' on development aid.
The movement's robust aura is buttressed at times by rasguado and golpe sounds,32 character features of the flamenco guitar.
Their seigneurial competence was buttressed by the sanction of delegated princely jurisdiction.
The cleft (septal commissure) in the left-sided valve is closed with mattress sutures buttressed with pericardial pledgets.
Figure 19 shows, greatly exaggerated, the way a dome might crack if its supporting structure (buttressing half-domes or arches, for example) gave way slightly.
Trees with buttresses at 1.3 m were measured immediately above the buttresses.
