Noun
- 1. cantilever, beam
- usage: projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
Verb
- 1. cantilever, stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project
- usage: project as a cantilever
- 2. cantilever, construct, build, make
- usage: construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings"
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