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cantilever
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, probably from cant (n.2) + lever , but earliest form (c.1610) was cantlapper . First element also might be Spanish can "dog," architect's term for an end of timber jutting out of a wall, on which beams rested. Related: Cantilevered .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Balance existed to tilt off, floors to leap up from and air to fall or cantilever through. ▪ In the early planning stages, the sheet piles were designed to cantilever only. ▪ Of all-metal construction, the Firefly F.I was a cantilever ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only v. project as a cantilever construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony. vb. To project in the manner of a cantilever, or to project (something) by means of a cantilever
Usage examples of cantilever.
Waddell has shown that, in some cases, it is convenient to erect simple independent spans, by building them out as cantilevers and converting them into independent girders after erection.
The girders over the second and fourth spans are extended as cantilevers over the adjoining spans.
Smoke rose, there, from a fire on the shore, where the low cantilever, cottoned down in fog, shot off to Oakland.
There were no boulders at this newer end of the Chaos, only raw young slab, many of which were the size of village frontons, some standing on end, some flat, some tilted at unlikely angles, some jetting out over voids for three-fourths of their length, held up by the cantilevering weight of another slab.
The central dome was a smooth sweep of cantilevers and fitted stone as wide as the main meeting hall on Hidden Island.
He drove to Woodrow Wilson Drive and then down to his small house that stood on cantilevers and looked out across the Cahuenga Pass.
At that point, specific areas, riddled with channel-intersections, would give way, and immense plugs would be forced up toward the crust, plugs of iron, connected by ferrous cantilevers through the channels between.
It was a spectacular undertaking by reason of its very size, and Bartley realized that, whatever else he might do, he would probably always be known as the engineer who designed the great Moorlock Bridge, the longest cantilever in existence.
Jeshua hesitated, then looked up and saw a cantilever arch throwing out green fluid ropes like a spider spinning silk.
Avoiding an occasional guardsman of the city legion he came at length to the base of the cliff, four hundred feet below the cantilever bridge.
One of these was a heavy, archaic cantilever bridge for which Amalfi could postulate no use at all.
It crossed a rusty cantilever bridge and plunged into a region of wind-distorted apple orchards.
Tractors and pressors leaped from ship to ship, binding the whole myriad of hitherto discrete units into a single structure as solid, even comparatively as to size, as a cantilever bridge.
The greasy heads and cantilever brassieres were still there, but the atmosphere was refined, like a country club dance.
The gate that hung between these posts was a Regardie, with a Mudd cantilever catch and a Miramar double coil spring.