CANTILEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cantilever mean? 

• CANTILEVER (noun)
  The noun CANTILEVER has 1 sense:

1. projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only

  Familiarity information: CANTILEVER used as a noun is very rare.

• CANTILEVER (verb)
  The verb CANTILEVER has 2 senses:

1. project as a cantilever

2. construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed

  Familiarity information: CANTILEVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANTILEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cantilever" is a kind of...):

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Derivation:

cantilever (construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed)

cantilever (project as a cantilever)

• CANTILEVER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cantilever    ... he / she / it cantilevers   
Past simple: cantilevered   
Past participle: cantilevered   
-ing form: cantilevering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Project as a cantilever

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "cantilever" is one way to...):

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out (extend out or project in space)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

cantilever (projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings

Hypernyms (to "cantilever" is one way to...):

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cantilever (projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only)

 Context examples 

Specialized sensors detect and record the movements of the cantilever, providing an image with resolution at the atomic level.

(Atomic Resolution Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of a microscale cantilever, a laser, an array of photodiodes and a detection system.

(Atomic Force Microscope, NCI Thesaurus)

The soft robots could also be used as cantilevers or folded into "flowers" with petals that bend in different directions.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)

When the tip moves in proximity to the investigated object, forces of interaction between the tip and the surface influence the movement of the cantilever.

(Atomic Resolution Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

The tip is mounted on a flexible cantilever, allowing the tip to follow the surface profile.

(Atomic Resolution Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)