Physical supports and supporting
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- abutment
- backbone
- bear
- bearing
- bolster
- bookend
- brace
- bracket
- buoy
- burden
- buttress
- cantilever
- carry
- catwalk
- cradle
- flying buttress
- girder
- groan
- groan with/under (the weight of)somethingidiom
- handhold
- joist
- lath
- leg
- load-bearing
- pier
- pile
- pillar
- prop
- propsomethingup
- rafter
- rest
- rib
- runner
- scaffold
- scaffolding
- shore
- shoresomethingup
- sinew
- skid
- stanchion
- stem
- stilt
- strut
- support
- trestle
- underpin
- unsupported
- upright
- weight-bearing