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BUTMENT

Definition: BUTMENT

BUTMENT

Noun

1. The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.

2. A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Butment \But"ment\, noun. [Abbreviation of Abutment.]. (Websters 1913)


Expression: BUTMENT

Expression using "BUTMENT": Butment cheek. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BUTMENT

Derivations

Words ending with "BUTMENT": abutment. (additional references)

Words containing "BUTMENT": abutments. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BUTMENT"

Words rhyming with "BUTMENT" (pronounced 'But"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BUTMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-m-n-t-t-u"

-2 letters: butte, unmet.

-3 letters: bent, bunt, bute, butt, menu, mute, mutt, nett, neum, numb, tent, tube, tune, unbe.

-4 letters: ben, bet, bum, bun, but, emu, men, met, mun, mut, neb, net, nub, nut, ten, tet, tub, tun, tut.

-5 letters: be, em, en, et, me, mu, ne, nu, um, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-m-n-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: abutment.

 

+2 letters: abutments.

 

+3 letters: besmutting.

 

+4 letters: misbuttoned.

 

+5 letters: resubmitting, transmutable, unembittered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BUTMENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 55 54 4D 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    -    --    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010101 01010100 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#84 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0054 004D 0045 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36555447394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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