Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length.
- noun A member, such as a beam, that projects beyond a fulcrum and is supported by a balancing member or a downward force behind the fulcrum.
- noun A bracket or block supporting a balcony or cornice.
- intransitive verb To construct as or in the manner of a cantilever.
- intransitive verb To extend outward as or in the manner of a cantilever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cantaliver .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
cantalever .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a longbracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony. - verb To project in the manner of a cantilever, or to project (something) by means of a cantilever
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
- verb construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed
- verb project as a cantilever
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The construction of the arched roof is on the plan which engineers know as the cantilever, and not that of the Roman arch.
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888
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They together form what is called a cantilever; if you lay the letter V on its side, the open end will represent roughly the place where the arch and girders start from the tower.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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And with the change came the bridging - over period -- the kind of cantilever which hope thrusts out from one side of the bank of the swift-flowing stream of adversity in the belief that somebody on the other side of the chasm will build the other half, and the two form a highway leading to a change of scene and renewed prosperity.
Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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Indeed, during the same period, inconsistencies and difficulties of using standard, "cantilever" approximations were realised and a true elastic solution was obviously needed to settle the controversy.
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Comment on Free beer & hotdogs at the Gowanus Yacht Club this weekend by Jacqueline Jones Comment on Watty & Meg to replace Caffé Carciofo by Cobble Hill Blog » Watty & Meg signage going up right now Studio for Civil Architecture has created a proposal for enclosing the BQE cantilever which is schedule for
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For the next few years, you can watch the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge being constructed adjacent to the existing "cantilever" section.
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For the next few years, you can watch the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge being constructed adjacent to the existing "cantilever" section.
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For the next few years, you can watch the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge being constructed adjacent to the existing "cantilever" section.
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For the next few years, you can watch the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge being constructed adjacent to the existing "cantilever" section.
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I'd have sworn my cantilever was the only one that could span Michamac Strait. "
Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912
chained_bear commented on the word cantilever
Way to go, WordNet. *rolls eyes*
January 11, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cantilever
That clears that up.
January 11, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word cantilever
Cantilevering is, as I learned half a minute ago, an occasional locomotor mode of some lemurs, defined as
"holding on to the substrate with a pair of limbs only and leaning across a gap to grasp another support" Warren & Crompton (1997) Am J Phys Anthr.
June 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word cantilever
Come on mate, think positive, yes you can.
December 15, 2018