to cantilever
4
8.9
- verb
- /ˈkæntɪˌlivər/
- Specialized
:
voladizar
- One of the things I kept looking for was someplace that was cantilevered out like that.
Examples
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The balcony was cantilevered out from the main building, allowing for a stunning view of the sunset.
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Located at 505 College Avenue, the 2,800-square-foot home will have extensive windows, a cantilevered second-story master bedroom, and a solar array that stretches about 140 feet.
Blog text (3) -
-I want you to cantilever that cedar... ...on the bias down by the north end, you got that?
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It's like a forklift, so it's cantilevered, and it raises and lowers the platform as needed.
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The apartment was eighteen hundred square feet of McMansion cantilevered above a rainswept stretch of city traffic.
Academic text (2004) -
A white building cantilevered above the Thames's brown swell like a gull's wing, the lights of Tower Bridge in the background.
Fiction book (1999) -
If one is to explore the possibility of cantilevering off a cliff (a desire of many architects), one is forced to manufacture that landscape.
Blog text (22) -
Bell steered her toward a glass and chrome pavilion with soaring cantilevered wings anchored in ferroconcrete.
Fiction book (1998) -
Strategically, the architectural celebration of the pure cantilevered form acts pragmatically as the passive solar eave to the outdoor space below, cutting out summer sun while letting winter sun flood in.
Blog text (22) -
Della got out of the car and craned to see the property, joyously taking in the cantilevered deck and the seamless walls of glass that wrapped around the second story, so clean that light seemed to tumble out of them.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
7
3.6
To stick out over the edge of something
Compounds
- Specialized
A bridge made of beams that stick out from supports and meet in the middle to hold the road
How Far
- Specialized
4
8.9
15
5.1
19
4.8
- Specialized
23
4.3
31
5.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
To cantilever follows the same image: cant (to lean out) plus lever ('a bar used to lift'). So to cantilever something is to make it stick out and be held at only one end, like a balcony that reaches over the street without pillars.