Truss

[trʌs]

解释:

(noun.) a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure.

(noun.) (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure.

(verb.) support structurally; 'truss the roofs'; 'trussed bridges'.

(verb.) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it.

整理:内莉--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

(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.

(n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

(n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

(n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

(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.

(n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

(n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

(n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

(n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

(n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

编辑:桑德拉

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Bundle, package, packet.[2]. Bandage (for hernia).

录入:莫拉

解释:

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.

手打:威特