truss
pronunciation
How to pronounce truss in British English:
UK [trʌs]
How to pronounce truss in American English:
US [trʌs]
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- Noun:
- (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
- a framework of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss)
- (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
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- Verb:
- tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
- secure with or as if with ropes
- support structurally
Word Origin
- truss (n.)
- c. 1200, "collection of things bound together," from Old French trousse, torse "parcel, package, bundle," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *torciare "to twist," from Late Latin torquere (see torque (n.)). Meaning "surgical appliance to support a rupture, etc." first attested 1540s. Sense of "framework for supporting a roof or bridge" is first recorded 1650s.
- truss (v.)
- c. 1200, "to load, load up," from Anglo-French trusser, Old French trusser, torser "to load, fill, pack, fasten" (11c.), from Old French trousse, torse (see truss (n.)). Related: Trussed; trussing.
Example
- 1. But the eastern truss bridge and causeway would eventually have to come down .
- 2. It took 35 days to assemble the first truss , 10 days for the second one and 1 day for the third one .
- 3. The project also included a tunnel to logan airport as well as a cable-stayed bridge to replace the double-decker truss bridge over the charles river .
- 4. The international space station is equipped with two independent cooling systems , or coolant loops , mounted on the lab 's main solar power truss .
- 5. Inventions photograph by bell collection inventor and early national geographic society president alexander graham bell created this tetrahedral truss kite , designed with three-dimensional triangles that could support considerable weight , in order to study aerodynamic design before attempting to build airplanes .