truss in English

noun

1

a framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure.

roof trusses

synonyms: support, buttress, joist, brace, beam, prop, strut, stay, stanchion, pier

2

a bundle of old hay (56 lb), new hay (60 lb), or straw (36 lb).

In 1795, Parliament specified that a truss of hay should equal 56 pounds for old hay or 60 pounds (about 27.2 kilograms) for new hay.

3

a compact cluster of flowers or fruit growing on one stalk.

Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit.

4

a heavy metal ring securing a lower yard to its mast.

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 rolling of the vessel.

verb

1

tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking.

She follows the clear directions for trussing the bird.

2

support (a roof, bridge, or other structure) with a truss or trusses.

The response of engineers to this disaster was to go back to building bridges with reinforced trussed decks.

noun

• support, buttress, joist, brace, beam, prop, strut, stay, stanchion, pier
• corbel

verb

• tie up, bind, chain up, pinion, fetter, tether, secure, swaddle, wrap
• bind, tie up, tie down

Use "truss" in a sentence

1. a member of a side truss, horizontal truss or bulkhead;

2. A truss.

3. (13) a member of a side truss, horizontal truss or bulkhead;

4. Truss bridges make use of a large frame called the truss.

5. (m) a member of a side truss, horizontal truss or bulkhead;

6. Truss posts, not of metal

7. Acoustic stringed instrument bridge truss

8. We should improvise a truss.

9. Truss, this is a critical window.

10. Two lines from the spreader bar attach to the truss to move the truss using a crane.

11. The Bowstring truss, also known as the arched rib truss, uses similar components to other truss systems such as the use of a top chord, bottom chord, struts, and ties

12. Based on these selections, the truss creation tool generates a layout and structural members of a truss.

13. No, I don't wear a truss.

14. Truss construction for a passenger conveyor

15. This is not a Bowstrung truss assembly

16. A method of fabricating a truss (12).

17. Not a few resort to a truss.

18. Truss the chicken before you roast it.

19. 13 Plane truss structure static analysis program!

20. A truss structure for a utility pole

21. (e) a member of a truss-type beam;

22. 15 Some people like to truss up the turkey.

23. 3 The truss rod cover I don't like particularly.

24. There's a beautiful long-truss bridge there. Mmm.

25. 2 Truss the chicken before you roast it.

26. In the case of truss deflections, the contribution of connection flexibility on truss deflection has been taken into account using a simple virtual work method, and excellent agreement is then obtained between the predicted and actual truss deflections.

27. TRUSS BRIDGES are supported by trusses shaped like triangles.

28. Lifting frame for a crane using a truss member

29. The innovative trait of the floating truss platform is the inherent elasticity of the truss, created from the articulated joints of the water-tight Buoyant members, which disperses-diffuses any loads with only axial force loading of truss members.

30. The bridge replaced a wooden truss structure erected in 1873.

31. If you don' t, truss me up Iike a turkey

32. 14 Put stuffing into the cavity and truss the bird.

33. Method for manufacturing sandwich panel having core of truss structure

34. Well, I had a truss for my hernia, to provide support.

35. Ultratec Airbursts Designed to be suspended from a lighting truss

36. Two embodiments of a collapsible metal roof truss are disclosed.

37. The implant includes a web structure including a space truss.

38. He was bearing a truss of trifles at his back.

39. 4 The truss system requires a very long lead time.

40. Le Maitre Airbursts Designed to be suspended from a lighting truss

41. One hour later the first roof truss was put into place.

42. Method and apparatus for manufacturing a nail plate truss without setting

43. Wound up at the bottom of East River wearing a cement truss.

44. An industrial hanger is provided for coupling a device to a truss.

45. The truss handling apparatus interacts with the forks of a lift.

46. A stiffener device for use in moving a truss is disclosed.

47. A micro-truss sheet having material properties varying across the sheet.

48. Let's see if this convict can shut off this truss jail.

49. 1 He was bearing a truss of trifles at his back.

50. A Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge.