Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cantilever

1 sense of cantilever

Sense 1
cantilever -- (projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only)
       => beam -- (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cantilever

2 senses of cantilever

Sense 1
cantilever -- (project as a cantilever)
       => stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project -- (extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff")

Sense 2
cantilever -- (construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings")
       => construct, build, make -- (make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer")