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Definitions: Abutment |
AbutmentNoun1. Point of contact between two objects or parts. 2. A masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abutment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | That part of the valley side against which the dam is constructed. An artificial abutment is sometimes constructed, as a concrete gravity section, to take the thrust of an arch dam where there is no suitable natural abutment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A bearing arranged to resist an axial movement of a shaft and to carry axial load. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed. Right and left abutments are those on respective sides of an observer looking downstream. (references) |
Mining | A surface or mass provided to withstand thrust, for example, the end supports of an arch or bridge. In coal mining, (1) the weight of the rocks above a narrow roadway is transferred to the solid coal along the sides, which act as abutments of the arch of strata spanning the roadway; and (2) the weight of the rocks over a longwall face is transferred to the front abutment (the solid coal ahead of the face) and the back abutment (the settled packs behind the face). See also:overarching weight;pressure arch; load transfer. Syn:arch structure. (references) |
Transportation | Part of a structure that directly receives thrust or pressure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contiguity | Noun: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion; touching; Verb: (see touch ). |
Defense | Buttress, abutment; shore; (support). |
Support | Post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abutment |
| English words defined with "abutment": abutment arch, Abutment pier ♦ Drawbore ♦ Portal bracing ♦ Rampant arch, Reins of a vault ♦ Skew back, Springer ♦ To throw out ♦ Water wing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abutment": abutment load, abutment pillars, Abutment Seepage ♦ cutoff forks ♦ Dental Clasps, Dental Implantation, Endosseous, Denture Bases ♦ Edge species ♦ front abutment pressure ♦ right-angled crossing ♦ shew back, square crossing, staunching forks. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "abutment": Butment. (references) |
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Health | This kind of abutment is more susceptible to shearing forces than the normal interlocked system of epidermal rete ridges and dermal papillae. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Abutment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abutment" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abutment": abutment arch ♦ Abutment pier. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abutment | 9 |
abutment intra tray weep | 4 |
bridge abutment | 3 |
abutment implant | 2 |
abutment bridge design software | 2 |
abutment integral | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abutment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | beer (bear, boar). (various references) | |
Albanian | mbajtëse (brace, bracket, cleat, hold, holder, holdfast, hook, keeper, Mount, pendant, rack, retainer, stand, standard, support, supporter, tenter), kufi (ambit, border, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, ceiling, compass, demarcation, division, edge, end, frontier, hedge, line, margin, Mark, measure, mete, radius, razor edge, stint, terminus), këmbë (foot, hoof, leg, locomotives, paw, peg, pin, shank, trotters). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملتقى شيئين, متاخمين, متاخمة (adjacency), دعامة (armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | край (about, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up), контрафорс (buttress, pier), опорен (bearing), брегови устои (bankseat), подпора (abut, brace, bracing, bracket, counterfort, jamb, pillar, post, prop, puncheon, rest, shore, sprag, stand, stock, stull, support, tree, upright), допирна точка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 扶垛. (various references) | |
Czech | podpìra (brace, bracket, prop, strut, support), pata (bottom, heel). (various references) | |
Danish | aksialtrykleje (thrust bearing, thrust block), aksialleje (thrust bearing, thrust block), vederlag (impost, pay, remuneration, skewback, springer), trykleje (impost, thrust bearing, thrust block), stopleje (thrust bearing, thrust block), landfag (end span, side span), landfæste, endepille (root). (various references) | |
Dutch | steunbeer (buttress), schoor (brace, bracing, capsill, chock, cleat, diagonal brace, mine prop, pillar, pit prop, pitprops, post, prop, raker, scab, shore, shores, skore, sprag, stay, strut, stull, transom, transome), beer (bear, boar, heel, night soil, salamander, skull). (various references) | |
Esperanto | subtenaĵo, murapogilo. (various references) | |
Finnish | aksiaalilaakeri (thrust bearing, thrust block), painelaakeri (thrust bearing, thrust block). (various references) | |
French | contrefort. (various references) | |
German | Widerlager (bearing, pulling down, skewback, springer, stop, thrust bearing, thrust block), Stützpfeiler (buttress, pier, supporting pillar), Balkenkopf. (various references) | |
Greek | ένωση (abutting joint, amalgamation, assembly, brazed oe soldered joint, combination, compound, connection, coupling, fitting, fusion, guild, join, joining, joint, junction, juncture, piecing, splice, splicing, union, vinculum), έδρανον ώσεως (thrust bearing, thrust block), έδρανο (base bearing, bearer, bearing, bench, frame, pedestal, socket, stool, support, thrust bearing, thrust block, trestle), σύνδεση ελασμάτων πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο, σύνδεση (adhesion, assembly, attachment, binder, binding point, bond, bonding, clip, colligation, combination, con., configuration, conjunction, conn., connected, connecting, connection, connexion, coupling, crimp, cross-over, fitting, hitch, hitching, hookup, hook-up, interconnection, join, joining, joint, jointing, junction, ligature, link, link up, linkage, linking, merge, piecing, spanning, splice, stitch, syndication, tag, tap, turn-on), στήριγμα (bearer, bearing, brace, chair, chock, cleat, foothold, mounting, prop, purchase, rest, skore, stanchion, stand, stay, stays, support), μάτισμα (splice, spliced sling, splicing), μάτιση (splice), ωστικός τριβέας (thrust bearing, thrust block), ωστικό έδρανο (thrust bearing, thrust block), εγκάθιση, άκρο (apex, border, brim, brow, butt, edge, end, extreme, extremity, foot, ledge, limb, Marge, member, narrow face, Neb, peak, rim, tip, trimming, verge), άρμοση, ακρόβαθρο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משען (anchor, brace, buttress, prop, rest, staff, stay, support), משע ת (buttress, crutch, staff, stave, support). (various references) | |
Hungarian | támfal (buttress), egymáshoz illeszkedés. (various references) | |
Italian | spalla (back, fore leg, scapular, shoulder, thrust bearing, thrust block), appoggio (advocacy, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, countenance, endorsement, footing, indorsation, indorsement, prop, purchase, rest, support). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 架台 (frame, stand). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | か い (a tentative title, excessive, frame, name of poem, stand, stand for flower vase, subject, task, theme, too much, unreasonable). (various references) | |
Korean | 교합 . (various references) | |
Manx | cochagliagh (abutting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abutmentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | limite (border, borderland, bound, boundary, Bourne, ceiling, cincture, circumscription, compasses, frontier, limit, limitation, Mark, measure, mere, mete, pale, prompt, purview, stint, terminal, termination, upper limit, verge, windup). (various references) | |
Romanian | pilastru (column, pilaster, pillar, stud), margine (bank, border, bounds, brim, brink, compass, curb, edge, edging, end, extremity, fringe, kerb, ledge, limit, list, Marge, margin, outskirts, periphery, precinct, rim, seam, termination, tether, verge), mãrginire (limitation, obtuseness, obtusity, parochialism), contiguitate (adjacency, contiguity). (various references) | |
Russian | устой, контрфорс (buttress, counterfort), опорный (bearing), пята свода. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zajednička granica, potporni zid svoda ili stub, potporni (atlas, supporting, sustentive), medja. (various references) | |
Spanish | estribo (bail, brace, buttress, clamp, clasp, coulter clamp, coulter clip, joist hanger, shoe, spur, step, stirrup, swinging yoke, T-bar, treeshoe, U-bolt), contrafuerte (backstay, buttress, counter, quarter, stiffener). (various references) | |
Swedish | stödjepunkt (base, fulcrum, key point), stöd (backing, buttress, console, countenance, crutch, endorsement, indorsation, indorsement, linchpin, litter, patronage, prop, rest, server, stand by, stay, support, supporter, trestle), sidostöd, landfäste, förankring (anchorage, anchoring, bracing, guying, rigging, river clamp, river dog, staying, weight clamp), brofäste (bankseat), bärlager (base, base course, road base, thrust bearing, thrust block). (various references) | |
Turkish | kemer ayağı (springer), köprü ayağı (trestle), dayanak (anchorage, base, fulcrum, ground, hinge, Mount, pivot, prop, rest, shore, support). (various references) | |
Ukranian | упор, межа (balk, barrier, border, bound, brink, butt, ceiling, circumference, circumscription, delimitation, frontier, limit, pale, precinct, side-land, tiptop, ultimate, verge). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trụ chống, giới hạn (abuttal, diapason, limit, measure, reserve, restrictive, term), chỗ tiếp giáp tường chống, biên giới (abuttal, mete). (various references) | |
Welsh | ateg (prop, stay, support), pentan (hob). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abutment": abutments. (additional references) | |
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"Abutment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abaitment, abatment, abumen, abutement, abutendi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "abutment" (pronounced 'A*but"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, 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, Annulment, Anointment, Apartment, Appallment, Appeachment, Appeasement, Appertainment, Appliment, Applotment, Appointment, Appraisement, Apprizement, Approachment, Arraignment, Arrestment, Ascertainment, Aspirement, Assailment, Assentment, Assessment, assignment, Assithment, Assortment, Assuagement, Assythment, Astoundment, Attachment, Attainment, Attaintment, Attendment, Attirement, Attornment, auripigment, Availment, Avengement, Averment, Avisement, Avouchment, Bailment, Baptizement, Basement, Batement, Befriendment, Beguilement, Benightment, Benumbment, Bequeathment, Bereavement, Beseechment, Besetment, Besiegement, Bestowment, Betrayment, Betrothment, Betrustment, Bewailment, Bewitchment, Bewrayment, Bisegment, Blastment, Bodement, Bombardment, Bushment, Butment, Cajolement, Casement, Catchment, Cerement, Cessment, Chatoyment, Cloyment, Coadjustment, Commandment, Commencement, Commitment, Compartment, Compilement, Completement, Complotment, Comportment, Concealment, Condolement, Confinement, Confutement, Congealment, Conjurement, Consignment, Containment, Contentment, Contrivement, Controlment, Convincement, Copartment, Counterrolment, Curtailment, Debarment, Debasement, Debatement, Debauchment, Deboshment, Decampment, Decidement, Declarement, Decorement, Deducement, Defacement, Deferment, Definement, Deforcement, Defraudment, Defrayment, Degradement, Delayment, Denotement, Denouncement, Department, Deplorement, Deportment, Depravement, Deprivement, Derailment, Derangement, Derivement, Desightment, Designment, Despisement, Despoilment, Detachment, Detainment, Determent, Dethronement, Devolvement, Devotement, Diducement, Disagreement, Disannulment, Disappointment, Disarrangement, Disarrayment, Disavowment, Disbandment, Disbarment, Disbursement, Discernment, Discontentment, Diseasement, Disembarkment, Disemboguement, Disemployment, Disenchantment, Disendowment, Disengagement, Disenthrallment, Disgorgement, Disguisement, Disimprovement, Disinterment, Disinthrallment, Dislodgment, Dismastment, Disobligement, Disownment, Dispatchment, Disportment, Disposement, Distillment, Divergement, Divestment, Divinement, Divorcement, Easement, Effacement, Ejectment, Eloignment, Eloinment, Elopement, Embalmment, Embankment, Embarkment, Embasement, Embayment, Embedment, Emboitement, Embossment, Emboyssement, Embracement, Embranchment, Embreathement, Embroilment, Embushment, Empalement, Emplacement, Employment, Enactment, Encampment, Encasement, Encashment, Enchainment, Enchantment, Enclavement, Encroachment, Encrustment, Encystment, Endearment, Endictment, Endowment, Enduement, Endurement, Enfeoffment, Enfoldment, Enforcement, Engagement, Engorgement, Engraffment, Engrailment, Engravement, Engrossment, Engulfment, enhancement, Enjoinment, Enjoyment, Enlacement, Enlargement, Enlistment, Enouncement, Enragement, Enrichment, Enrockment, Enrollment, Enslavement, Enswathement, Entailment, Entassment, Entertainment, Enthrallment, Enthronement, Enticement, Entombment, Entrancement, Entreatment, Entwinement, Enwrapment, Epaulement, Equipment, Erasement, Escapement, Escarpment, Eschewment, Espousement, Estrangement, Estrepement, Evincement, Evolvement, Exaltment, Excitement, Excusement, Exertment, Exhalement, Exhaustment, Explorement, Extolment, Farcement, Feoffment, figment, fitment, Fleshment, Forcement, Foreappointment, Forebodement, Forejudgment, fragment, Freshment, Frightment, fulfillment, garment, Gazement, Imbankment, Imbowment, Imbruement, Imbrutement, Imbuement, Imbursement, Immoment, immurement, Impackment, impairment, Impartment, impeachment, impingement, Imposement, impressment, improvement, Impugnment, Incagement, incasement, Incensement, incitement, Incommodement, Increasement, Incrustment, Indebtment, Indentment, indictment, Inditement, Indorsement, Indowment, inducement, Induement, Indulgement, Infeoffment, Infoldment, infringement, Ingraftment, Ingulfment, Insignment, installment, instillment, Insultment, Intendment, Interchangement, Interlacement, interment, internment, Inthrallment, Intombment, intrenchment, Introducement, Intwinement, Inurement, investment, Invitement, involvement, judgment, jument, Lavement, Ledgment, lodgment, loment, maladjustment, Maltreament, Mandment, Manurement, Mendment, Misadjustment, Misallotment, Misarrangement, Misemployment, Misimprovement, Misjudgment, misplacement, misstatement. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-m-n-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: nutmeat. | |
-2 letters: attune, batmen, batten, battue, butane, mutant, mutate, numbat, nutate, tauten, tubate, untame. | |
-3 letters: ament, battu, beaut, betta, butte, matte, meant, menta, tabun, taunt, tubae, unmet. | |
-4 letters: abet, abut, amen, ante, aunt, bane, bate, batt, beam, bean, beat, beau, bema, bent, beta, bunt, bute, butt, etna, mabe, mane, mate, matt, maun, maut, mean, meat, menu, meta, mute, mutt, nabe, name, neat, nema, nett, neum, numb, tabu, tame, tate, taut, team, teat, tent, tuba, tube, tuna, tune, unbe. | |
-5 letters: amu, ane, ant, ate, att, bam, ban, bat, ben, bet, bum, bun, but, eat, eau, emu, eta, mae, man, mat, men, met, mun, mut, nab, nae, nam, neb, net, nub, nut, tab, tae, tam, tan, tat, tau, tea, ten, tet, tub, tun, tut, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-m-n-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abutments. | |
+4 letters: transmutable. | |
+5 letters: subdepartment. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 75 74 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... ..- - -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110101 01110100 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b u t m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0075 0074 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568878679718086 |
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