Definition of truss Truss
/tɹʌˈs/ - [trus] - truss
We found 29 definitions of truss from 8 different sources.
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NounPlural: trusses |
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| truss - a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure | ||
| framework a structure supporting or containing something | ||
| truss bridge a bridge supported by trusses | ||
| truss - (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure | ||
| bandage, patch a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | ||
| truss - (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) | ||
| corbel | ||
| wall bracket, bracket a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | ||
| architecture the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | ||
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| truss - support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges" | ||
| hold up, sustain, support, hold hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration | ||
| truss - tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it | ||
| tie, bind form a knot or bow in; "tie a necktie" | ||
| cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | ||
| truss - secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" | ||
| tie down, tie up, bind | ||
| restrain, confine, hold hold back | ||
| chain up tie up with chains; "chain up the prisoners" | ||
| faggot up, faggot, fagot bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" | ||
| faggot, fagot bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" | ||
| hog-tie tie together somebody's limbs; "The prisoner was hog-tied" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- truss (Noun)
A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place. - truss (Noun)
A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge. - truss (Noun)
A triangular bracket. - truss (Noun)
An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load. - truss (Verb)
To tie up a bird before cooking it. - truss (Verb)
To secure or bind with ropes. - truss (Verb)
To support.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
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A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. - truss (n.)
A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. - truss (n.)
A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. - truss (n.)
A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants. - truss (n.)
The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast. - truss (n.)
An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style. - truss (n.)
To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. - truss (n.)
To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. - truss (n.)
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. - truss (n.)
To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. - truss (n.)
To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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trus, n. a bundle: timbers fastened together for binding a beam or supporting a roof: in ships, the rope or iron for keeping the lower yard to the mast: a tuft of flowers at the top of the main stalk or stem: a bandage or apparatus used in hernia to retain reduced parts, or to hinder protusion.—v.t. to bind up: to pack close: to furnish with a truss: to draw tight and tie: to skewer in cooking.—n. Truss′-beam, a wooden beam strengthened by a tie-rod.—adj. Trussed.—n. Truss′ing, in ship-building, diagonal timbers or iron plates crossing the ribs internally, and consolidating the whole together. [O. Fr. trosser, orig. torser, to bind together—L. tortus, pa.p. of torquēre, to twist.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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(trousse, Fr.) a machine employed to pull a yard home to its respective mast, and retain it firmly in that position.As the truss is generally used instead of a parrel, it is rarely employed, except in flying top-gallant-sails, which are never furnished with parrels. It is no other than a ring or traveller, which encircles the mast, and has a rope fastened to its after-part, leading downward to the top or decks; by means of which the truss may be straitened or slackened at pleasure. The haliards of the top-gallant-sail being passed through this ring; and the sail being hoisted up to its utmost extent; it is evident, that the yard will be drawn close to the mast, by pulling down the truss close to the upper part of the sail. For, without the truss, the sail and its yard would be blown from the mast, so as to swing about, by the action of the wind, and the rocking of the vessel; unless the yard were hoisted close up to the pulley wherein the haliards run; which seldom is the case in flying top-gallant-sails, because they are usually much shallower than those which are fixed or standing.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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The trusses or parrels of the lower yards serve to bind them to their masts and are bowsed taut when the yards are trimmed, in order to arrest motion and friction. But the introduction of an iron goose-neck, centering and securing the yard well free of the mast, very much supersedes the use of trusses.
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