Meaning of truss in English

truss
verb [ T ]
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(also truss up)
to tie the arms and legs of someone together tightly and roughly with rope to prevent them from moving or escaping:
Police said the couple had been trussed up and robbed before being shot.
to prepare a bird for cooking by tying its wings and legs to its body
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Fastening and tying
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truss
noun [ C ]
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truss noun [C] (FOR A BODY PART)

a device for holding an organ of the body, especially part of the intestine, in its correct position after it has moved because of an injury
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Medical dressings, supports & devices
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truss noun [C] (FOR A ROOF/BRIDGE)

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a support for a roof or bridge that is usually made of stone or brick
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Parts of buildings: arches, columns & beams
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(Definition of truss from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

truss | American Dictionary

truss
noun [ C ]
us
/trʌs/
a support for a building or bridge, made of wood or steel:
No one knows if the fire damaged the building’s trusses and support beams.
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Examples of truss

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Figure 5 contains two examples of computer generated roof trusses.
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Table 5 summarizes the attributes of the duality between trusses and mechanisms.
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Sizing, shape and topology design optimization of trusses using genetic algorithms.
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The same grammar for planar trusses is used, but now the analysis will model the lines as beam elements that are capable of suppor ting bending and shear forces.
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The roof is hipped [27], therefore the trusses [29] are 13 in number: the first and the last bear, respectively, the two diagonal half trusses, delimiting the two minor pitches.
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The duality relation between mechanisms and trusses.
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She sold poultry and eggs and plucked her fowls and sold them trussed and got a very good price.
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She first knocks them down and then trusses them up so that they cannot even look after some of their own needs.
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In one building a man had to erect six trusses.
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In another case a man trussed up a dog with six yards of rope and threw it into a river.
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As a result, the economy was over-taxed, hyper-inflated, trussed up and rigidified when we took it over in 1979.
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A report on the investigation of trussed rafter roofs is due to be published in early 1979.
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The work is treatment against death watch beetle in two of the roof trusses, involving the removal and replacement of decayed timbers.
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The principal rafters will be supported by steelwork, which will be hidden between two sets of trusses between the strut and the beam.
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In some cases, the second or third trusses failed to set.
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Translations of truss

in Chinese (Traditional)
捆緊，縛牢（人的雙臂或雙腿）, （在烹調之前）將（雞、鴨等的）翅膀和腳紮攏, 身體的部分…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
捆紧，缚牢（人的双臂或双腿）, （在烹调之前）将（鸡、鸭等的）翅膀和脚扎拢, 身体的部分…
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atar de pies y manos, atar, suspensorio…
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amarrar…
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(sıkıca) bağlamak…
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stevig vastbinden…
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binde op, binde…
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buộc, gói chặt…
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związać…
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zäumen, binden…
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binde, sette opp…
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зв'язувати, зв'язувати крильця і ніжки (птаха для смаження)…
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