abutmentn.

Brit.

/əˈbʌtm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/əˈbətm(ə)nt/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abut v., -ment suffix.

Etymology: < abut v. + -ment suffix. Compare post-classical Latin abuttamentum (13th cent. in British sources), French aboutement (14th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘boundary’).

†1. Apparently: a projecting spit of land, a promontory. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun]

starteOE

nessOE

snookc1236

head1315

bill1382

foreland?a1400

capec1405

nook?a1425

mull1429

headland?c1475

point?c1475

nese1497

peak1548

promontory1548

arma1552

reach1562

butt1598

promontorea1600

horn1601

naze1605

promonta1607

bay1611

abutment1613

promontorium1621

noup1701

lingula1753

scaw1821

tang1822

odd1869

1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. lv, in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 250 The shoare..shooteth out a certaine abutment or bowing land,..enclosed as a strait passage betweene the sea..and the lake.

2. The point at which something abuts upon something else; a point of junction or meeting; a boundary. Also: a property or piece of land that abuts upon another; a description or record of how one property abuts upon another.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > a join or junction

juncturea1382

jointure1382

joiningc1384

commissure?c1425

shuttingc1440

concourse?a1560

abutment1644

internodium1653

shut1721

uniting1728

conjuncture1747

join1825

junction1841

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > terminating upon > meeting end-to-end

abutment1644

1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 118 The four fountains of Lepidus, built at the abutments of four stately ways.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 39 Sepulchres..on each side adorned with Battlements to the abutment of every Angle, who bear up a Coronal Arch.

1719 H. Stebbing True Meaning & Consequences Pref. p. viii Whose Business is it..to set out the several Abutments and Boundaries of my Lands?

1795 J. Bryant Observ. Treat. Descr. Plain of Troy 4 These [graves] were the limits, and abutments of the Grecian camp.

1805 C. Barton Elements Conveyancing V. iii. ii. 179 Lands..intended to pass by fines (which often comprehend them..without mentioning the names or abutments by which they are generally known).

1873 C. Lindsey Investig. Unsettled Boundaries Ont. 60 Nothing can so effectually protect posterity as a geographical delineation of boundaries and abutments of these countries and places.

1907 Southern Reporter 43 559 The Indian proprietors of Middletown granted by deed, in 1762, a tract of land within the following abutments, viz. : Wethersfield bounds on the north [etc.].

1933 Foreign Affairs Jan. 315 Manchuria is no more than the eastern abutment and ocean gateway of the far greater region of Mongolia.

1985 D. Keene Surv. Medieval Winchester i. 8 Abutments seem to be given most often for properties in St. Giles's fair, where physical boundaries were perhaps least well defined.

1994 R. D. Treloar Plumbing ix. 306 The soaker is designed to give an upstand at the abutment of a pitched roof to a wall.

3. Something on which another thing abuts or leans, or from which it obtains resistance or support. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports

staffc1000

hold1042

source1359

legc1380

shorer1393

stabilimenta1398

upholder1398

sustentationa1400

undersetterc1400

bearinga1425

undersettinga1425

suppowellc1430

triclinec1440

sustentaclec1451

supportera1475

sustainerc1475

sustenal1483

stayc1515

buttress1535

underpinning1538

firmament1554

countenance1565

support1570

appuia1573

comfort1577

hypostasis1577

underpropping1586

porter1591

supportation1593

supportance1597

understaya1603

bearer1607

rest1609

upsetter1628

mountinga1630

sustent1664

underlay1683

holdfast1706

abutment1727

suppeditor1728

mount1739

monture1746

bed1793

appoggiatura1833

bracing1849

bench1850

under-pinner1859

bolster-piece1860

sustainer1873

table mount1923

1727 S. Hales Veg. Staticks vii. 335 At every knot,..partitions serve as plinths, or abutments for the dilating pith to exert its force on.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §81. 365 The whole Scheme and Abutment of the rebellious Project was founded upon them.

1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) ix. 54 I have generally considered the Nose as the foundation or abutment of the brain.

1831 Mechanics' Mag. 5 Mar. 75/2 His diagram and explanation..are indisputable, provided he be left at liberty to place the abutment of his power where he please.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §25. 187 Long clear icicles, tapering from their abutments.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 64 Its [sc. the sternum's] human condition of serving as a ventral abutment to ribs though general is not constant.

1913 Alumni Bull. Univ. Virginia July 399 As the abutments of his domestic statesmanship were his faith in democracy and his trust in the people, so his foreign statesmanship rested always on two supports—political isolation and international peace.

4. Architecture. The masonry or rock which supports the lateral thrust of a bridge, arch, vault, etc.; the part of a valley side against which a dam is constructed. Cf. skew-back n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > parts of > section of pier or wall acting as support

butment1624

abutment1734

1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Bridge In the Description that he has given of the Bridge of Rimini, built by Augustus, he gives seven Feet and a half to the Abutments, which support Arches of an Opening of twenty Feet.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §274 The sloping abutments of an arch.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 328 In masonry, the abutments of a bridge mean the walls adjoining to the land.

1879 Building Constr. in Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 197 Piers imply supports which receive vertical pressure, whilst abutments are such as resist outward thrust.

1939 Road Bridges in Great Brit. 115/2 The abutments and wing walls are of mass concrete faced with masonry.

1976 B. D'J. Pancake Stories (1983) 91 On the smooth gray bark of a water maple, its roots breaking the abutment of a lock gate.

1994 New Scientist 26 Feb. 26/2 Water poured from the right bank of the dam's downstream abutment.

2009 Victorian Nov. 23/1 Road bridge.., a five span, steel arched structure with concrete piers and abutments faced with granite.

5. The action or an act of abutting. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > bringing into contiguity

touchingc1390

apposition?1541

application1562

abutment1859

appropinquation1864

1859 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Electr. & Magn. (Patent Office) 579 The needle is brought into a vertical position by the raised lever, and its vibrations are checked by the abutment of its end against the other lever.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 43 Separated into a lumbar and a sacral division, by the abutment of the iliac bones upon the vertebrae.

1915 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 41 The abutment of the sea wall of Mbau with its made-land, and docks built of large flat stones, is a remarkable example of native engineering.

1994 G. F. MCLean in N. Z. Chavchavadze et al. Nat. Identity as Issue of Knowl. & Morality ii. 71 The history of mankind in this last half century..could fairly well be described as essentially the abutment of the notion of person..against the rationalistic ideologies of liberalism and communalism.

6. Dentistry. A tooth that anchors or supports a prosthesis. Also abutment tooth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > that anchors or supports prosthesis

abutment1886

1886 Dental Cosmos 28 210 About a sixteenth of an inch is then ground from the occluding cusps of the abutment teeth.

1895 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 38 550 Bridgework in dentistry is the building of an artificial denture..depending upon the abutments for its stability and position.

1930 G. M. Hollenback in I. G. Nicholls Prosthetic Dentistry xlii. 653 It..does not provide as good retention, nor as good support for the abutment tooth as a partial veneer.

1972 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 16 Jan. b8/3 Conventional permanent bridges may fail to hold up if the teeth that serve as abutments give way.

2003 J. F. McCord et al. Missing Teeth iv. 45/1 The occlusal rest..is placed on the mesial side of the terminal abutment tooth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abutment
释义	abutmentn. Brit. /əˈbʌtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈbətm(ə)nt/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abut v., -ment suffix. Etymology: < abut v. + -ment suffix. Compare post-classical Latin abuttamentum (13th cent. in British sources), French aboutement (14th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘boundary’). †1. Apparently: a projecting spit of land, a promontory. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] starteOE nessOE snookc1236 head1315 bill1382 foreland?a1400 capec1405 nook?a1425 mull1429 headland?c1475 point?c1475 nese1497 peak1548 promontory1548 arma1552 reach1562 butt1598 promontorea1600 horn1601 naze1605 promonta1607 bay1611 abutment1613 promontorium1621 noup1701 lingula1753 scaw1821 tang1822 odd1869 1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. lv, in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 250 The shoare..shooteth out a certaine abutment or bowing land,..enclosed as a strait passage betweene the sea..and the lake. 2. The point at which something abuts upon something else; a point of junction or meeting; a boundary. Also: a property or piece of land that abuts upon another; a description or record of how one property abuts upon another. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > a join or junction juncturea1382 jointure1382 joiningc1384 commissure?c1425 shuttingc1440 concourse?a1560 abutment1644 internodium1653 shut1721 uniting1728 conjuncture1747 join1825 junction1841 the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > terminating upon > meeting end-to-end abutment1644 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 118 The four fountains of Lepidus, built at the abutments of four stately ways. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 39 Sepulchres..on each side adorned with Battlements to the abutment of every Angle, who bear up a Coronal Arch. 1719 H. Stebbing True Meaning & Consequences Pref. p. viii Whose Business is it..to set out the several Abutments and Boundaries of my Lands? 1795 J. Bryant Observ. Treat. Descr. Plain of Troy 4 These [graves] were the limits, and abutments of the Grecian camp. 1805 C. Barton Elements Conveyancing V. iii. ii. 179 Lands..intended to pass by fines (which often comprehend them..without mentioning the names or abutments by which they are generally known). 1873 C. Lindsey Investig. Unsettled Boundaries Ont. 60 Nothing can so effectually protect posterity as a geographical delineation of boundaries and abutments of these countries and places. 1907 Southern Reporter 43 559 The Indian proprietors of Middletown granted by deed, in 1762, a tract of land within the following abutments, viz. : Wethersfield bounds on the north [etc.]. 1933 Foreign Affairs Jan. 315 Manchuria is no more than the eastern abutment and ocean gateway of the far greater region of Mongolia. 1985 D. Keene Surv. Medieval Winchester i. 8 Abutments seem to be given most often for properties in St. Giles's fair, where physical boundaries were perhaps least well defined. 1994 R. D. Treloar Plumbing ix. 306 The soaker is designed to give an upstand at the abutment of a pitched roof to a wall. 3. Something on which another thing abuts or leans, or from which it obtains resistance or support. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports staffc1000 hold1042 source1359 legc1380 shorer1393 stabilimenta1398 upholder1398 sustentationa1400 undersetterc1400 bearinga1425 undersettinga1425 suppowellc1430 triclinec1440 sustentaclec1451 supportera1475 sustainerc1475 sustenal1483 stayc1515 buttress1535 underpinning1538 firmament1554 countenance1565 support1570 appuia1573 comfort1577 hypostasis1577 underpropping1586 porter1591 supportation1593 supportance1597 understaya1603 bearer1607 rest1609 upsetter1628 mountinga1630 sustent1664 underlay1683 holdfast1706 abutment1727 suppeditor1728 mount1739 monture1746 bed1793 appoggiatura1833 bracing1849 bench1850 under-pinner1859 bolster-piece1860 sustainer1873 table mount1923 1727 S. Hales Veg. Staticks vii. 335 At every knot,..partitions serve as plinths, or abutments for the dilating pith to exert its force on. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §81. 365 The whole Scheme and Abutment of the rebellious Project was founded upon them. 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) ix. 54 I have generally considered the Nose as the foundation or abutment of the brain. 1831 Mechanics' Mag. 5 Mar. 75/2 His diagram and explanation..are indisputable, provided he be left at liberty to place the abutment of his power where he please. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §25. 187 Long clear icicles, tapering from their abutments. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 64 Its [sc. the sternum's] human condition of serving as a ventral abutment to ribs though general is not constant. 1913 Alumni Bull. Univ. Virginia July 399 As the abutments of his domestic statesmanship were his faith in democracy and his trust in the people, so his foreign statesmanship rested always on two supports—political isolation and international peace. 4. Architecture. The masonry or rock which supports the lateral thrust of a bridge, arch, vault, etc.; the part of a valley side against which a dam is constructed. Cf. skew-back n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > parts of > section of pier or wall acting as support butment1624 abutment1734 1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Bridge In the Description that he has given of the Bridge of Rimini, built by Augustus, he gives seven Feet and a half to the Abutments, which support Arches of an Opening of twenty Feet. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §274 The sloping abutments of an arch. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 328 In masonry, the abutments of a bridge mean the walls adjoining to the land. 1879 Building Constr. in Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 197 Piers imply supports which receive vertical pressure, whilst abutments are such as resist outward thrust. 1939 Road Bridges in Great Brit. 115/2 The abutments and wing walls are of mass concrete faced with masonry. 1976 B. D'J. Pancake Stories (1983) 91 On the smooth gray bark of a water maple, its roots breaking the abutment of a lock gate. 1994 New Scientist 26 Feb. 26/2 Water poured from the right bank of the dam's downstream abutment. 2009 Victorian Nov. 23/1 Road bridge.., a five span, steel arched structure with concrete piers and abutments faced with granite. 5. The action or an act of abutting. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > bringing into contiguity touchingc1390 apposition?1541 application1562 abutment1859 appropinquation1864 1859 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Electr. & Magn. (Patent Office) 579 The needle is brought into a vertical position by the raised lever, and its vibrations are checked by the abutment of its end against the other lever. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 43 Separated into a lumbar and a sacral division, by the abutment of the iliac bones upon the vertebrae. 1915 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 41 The abutment of the sea wall of Mbau with its made-land, and docks built of large flat stones, is a remarkable example of native engineering. 1994 G. F. MCLean in N. Z. Chavchavadze et al. Nat. Identity as Issue of Knowl. & Morality ii. 71 The history of mankind in this last half century..could fairly well be described as essentially the abutment of the notion of person..against the rationalistic ideologies of liberalism and communalism. 6. Dentistry. A tooth that anchors or supports a prosthesis. Also abutment tooth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > that anchors or supports prosthesis abutment1886 1886 Dental Cosmos 28 210 About a sixteenth of an inch is then ground from the occluding cusps of the abutment teeth. 1895 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 38 550 Bridgework in dentistry is the building of an artificial denture..depending upon the abutments for its stability and position. 1930 G. M. Hollenback in I. G. Nicholls Prosthetic Dentistry xlii. 653 It..does not provide as good retention, nor as good support for the abutment tooth as a partial veneer. 1972 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 16 Jan. b8/3 Conventional permanent bridges may fail to hold up if the teeth that serve as abutments give way. 2003 J. F. McCord et al. Missing Teeth iv. 45/1 The occlusal rest..is placed on the mesial side of the terminal abutment tooth. 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