Truss

Definition: Truss

Truss

Noun

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

2. A framework of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss).

3. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent).

Verb

1. Tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking.

2. Secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners".

3. Support structurally, of roofs or bridges.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "truss" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Building

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Truss

Assemblage

Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock; fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook.

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Crosswords: Truss

Books

• Dynamic Response and Progressive Failure of Special Structures: Proceedings of the Technical Sessions on Response of Truss and Truss-Type Structures (reference)

• Performance of Four Raised-Heel or Cantilevered Wood Truss Designs (Research Report, No 82-1) (reference)

• Simplified Truss Design (reference)

• Spanning Berkshire Waterways: A Personal Excursion into the History of Metal Truss Highway Bridge Construction in Western New England, 1865-1905 (reference)

• The Newspaper Truss (A Learning CD) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• N Gatz We Truss (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

R.W. Smith's patent truss bridge, Tippecanoe City, Miami Co., Ohio / Strobridge & Co. Lith., Cincinnati, O. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "truss": clean and truss ♦ hernial truss ♦ Jack truss ♦ pony truss ♦ Pratt truss ♦ queen truss ♦ swedish roof truss ♦ To truss a person ♦ to truss one's self ♦ To truss up ♦ truss beam ♦ truss bridge ♦ Truss rod ♦ truss up. Additional references.

Beginning with "truss": truss-maker, truss-rod.

Ending with "truss": roof-truss.

Albanian

tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, tuft, tussock, wad), vandak (bunch, bundle, faggot, reap), qeprat, përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, engrain, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, underpin), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, tying), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, unite), deng (bale, bundle, pack, package), demet (shock), bistak. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتف الدجاجة, ‏حزمة قش, ‏حزم (bind, bunch, bundle, decide, determination, dogmatise, firmness, hardness, packing, parcel, resolution, rope, sheaf, sling, stack, strap), ‏عنقود (bob, bunch, cluster, fascicle, panicle, raceme, tuft), ‏طوق حديدي, ‏الجماولن مجموعة روافد, ‏رباط (band, bind, bond, cord, couple, juncture, knot, ligament, ligation, ligature, swathe), ‏شمر الثياب, ‏دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, put up, reinforce, rest, second, shore, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, underpin, uphold, upholding), ‏دعامات بناء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съцветие (cluster, head, inflorescence), стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, pinch, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, trim), укрепявам (bank, embank, entrench, fortify, secure, strengthen), свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, lash, link, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, weld), грозд (cluster, fascicle, fascicule, raceme), вързоп (bundle, pack, package, packet), бандаж (bandage, jockstrap, suspensory), прибирам (gather, get in, hive, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put away, put up, remove, retract, round up, take in, unship), подпорна конструкция на мост, подпорна конструкция на покрив, подпирам (atlas, back, prop up, shore, support, sustain, underlay, underpin, uphold). (various references)

Chinese 

捆 (sheaf). (various references)

Czech

sešnìrovat, podvázat, podpìrný trám, podepřít trámem, otep (bundle, faggot, fagot, sheaf), otýpka (bundle, faggot, wad, wisp). (various references)

Danish

skelet (skeleton), baerende led (girder). (various references)

Dutch

Staven,gebundeld of samengevoegd (bunch, in bundle, rods), skelet (skeleton), dragend spant (girder), draagbalk (bearer, capsill, dancer, girder, springer, transom, transome, twister), console (bracket, cantilever beam, cantilever girder, cantilevered beam, console, conversational terminal, corbel, knee, knee bracket, overhanging beam, overhanging girder, support plate, terminal), Bundel (bunch, bundle, cluster, collection, sheaf), Buizen,gebundeld of samengevoegd (bunch, in bundle, tubes), Balken,gebundels of samengevoegd (bunch, girders, in bundle). (various references)

Farsi 

انبان (Scrip), بداراویخته شدن , بادبان راجمع کردن , بارسفربستن , بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Wattle), بسیخ کشیدن (Broach, Spit), بقچه (Bundle, Pack), بهم بستن (Apply, Couple), بداراویختن (Crucify, Gibbet, Hang, Scaffold), شکم بند, فتق بند (Jockstrap), جفت کردن (Accompany, Assemble, Geminate, Graft, Husband, Link, Twin, Yoke), خرپا, گره زدن (Knit, Knot, Loop, Ruffle, Tie, Twitch), کوک زن , چوب بست زدن , متمسک شدن , پایه زدن , دسته کردن (Band, Bunch, Bundle, Cluster, Sheaf, Sheave). (various references)

Finnish

ristikkorakenne (framework, framing, lattice). (various references)

French

trousser, treillis (trellis), Tiges en ballot,botte,faisceau, Tubes en ballot,botte,faisceau, grappe, bandage herniaire, botte, brider, charpente, console, corbeau, Faisceau (trunk, trunk group), armer, ferme porteuse, potence, Poutrelles en ballot,botte,faisceau, renforcer, socle, ferme. (various references)

German

Fachwerk (frame-work, half-timbering, timbering). (various references)

Greek 

κηλεπίδεσμοσ, σκελετός (frame, framework), στηρίγματα στέγησ, στηρίγματα γέφυρασ, στηρίζω (base, brace, buoy, buttress, rest, shore, strut, substantiate, support, uphold), πλέγμα (grid, gridiron, lattice, mesh, nexus, plexus), φέρον δοκάρι (girder), ζώνη (band, belt, cincture, cordon, girdle, sash, shingles, waistband, zone), άτρακτος (fuselage, nacelle), δένω (bind, fasten, knot, lash, leash, strap on, thicken, tie, tie up), δεμάτι (sheaf), δεματιάζω (bale, bunch, faggot, sheaf, stack). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסבך (lattice, maze), לקשור (bind, bond, connect, hitch, knit, plot, relate, tether, tie), לצרור (bundle, pack, package, parcel, wrap), ח�'ורת שבר (hernia belt), חבילת חציר, צרור (bundle, knot, package, parcel, tie, wreath). (various references)

Hungarian

nyaláb (band, bar, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, fagot, parcel, pile, sheaf). (various references)

Indonesian

gelung (coil), gading-gading (joist, ribs of ship). (various references)

Italian

travatura, traliccio (gratings, grid, grids, lattice, latticed, pylon, trellis, trestle, wire fencing), struttura portante (carrier elements, framework, girder, tubular support stays), ossatura (bone, bones, frame, framework, shell, skeleton, structure), membratura portante di rinforzo (girder), fastello (bundle, fascicle, sheaf), fascio (beam, bundle, faggot, sheaf, wad, wisp), cinto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

トキソプラズマ症 (18-wheeler, articulated lorry, galvanized sheet iron, latest fashion, pepper game, semi-trailer, Thomas Cup, toboggan, toffy, toggle, toggle switch, Tom, tomahawk, tomato, tomato ketchup, tomato puree, tommy gun, tomography, tom-tom, toner, tonic, tonic water, tony tie, top, top ball, top batter, top class, top condition, top down, top fashion, top gear, top group, top hat, top lady, top management, top news, top runner, top scene, top secret, top seller, top spin, top star, topaze, topcoat, top-domain, topic, topic news, topics, topless, top-level, top-note, topological, topology, topper, topping, toss, toss batting, tosser, totocalcio, toxoplasmosis, Toyota, tractor, tractor-trailer, tragedy, tragic, tragi-comedie, transistor glamour, trauma, triad, trial, trial and error, triangle, tri-athlete, triathlon, tribalism, tricycle, Trident, trijet, Tristar, trust, try, zinc). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トラス . (various references)

Korean 

트러스. (various references)

Manx

thrussal, thruss (bundle, bundle of straw), paagey (kiss, kissing, osculate, osculation), kibbiney, kiangley ayns bart, jannoo bart jeh, bart (bundle, burden, load, loom frame, parcel, parcel of shares). (various references)

Pig Latin

usstray

Portuguese

treliça (framework), sustentar (abide, feed, hold, hold up, insist, maintain, nourish, poise, prop, repose, support, sustain, underpin, upbear, vindicate), suporte de teto, reforçar com suportes (strut), molho (bundle, cluster, dish gravy, fagot, gavel, gravy, sauce, sheaf, tuft), feixe (beam, bottle, bundle, cluster, fagot, gavel, pack, sheaf), fardo (bale, bundle, burden, fardel, freight, pack, package, parcel, tax, weight), faixa (band, bandage, belt, fillet, ray, rib, ribbon, roller-bandage, sash, streak, strip, stripe, tape, wrapper, zone), estrutura (bulk, cadre, conformation, constitution, construction, fabric, formation, frame, framework, making, scenario, structure), cinta (belt, brace, cincture, corset, girdle, hoop, middle, ring, sash, strap, waist, waistband, waistline, zone), atar (attach, band, band together, bandage, bind, connect, fasten, join, knot, leash, rope, tie, tie up), armação (armature, brace, cadre, cage, carcass, casement, cradle, easel, fittings, ribbing, rigging, scaffold, setting, skeleton, tackle), andaime (orlop, scaffold), amarrar (attach, bind, cable, connect, hitch, join, knot, moor, mouse, secure, string, tie, tie up). (various references)

Romanian

soclu (base, bed, bottom, dado, footing, pedestal, socle), snop (bundle, faggot, sheaf, tuft), mãnunchi (bunch, bundle, cluster, fascicle, handle, head, knot, lock, pack, sheaf, wisp), legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, unity), grindã cu zãbrele, fermã de acoperiş, bandaj (application, bandage, binding, ferrule, sash, swathe). (various references)

Russian 

ферма (estate, farm, girder, location, ostrich-farm, property, ranch, ranchland, stead, steading). (various references)

Scottish

trus (truss or bundle), truis (collect, tear, truss up : truis! word by which dogs), seid (a belly-full, a truss of hay, bed-spread on the floor), seasgan (a shock or truss of corn), poitean (a small truss of hay or straw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zagrnuti (cover), vezati u svežanj, utega (suspensory), svežanj (bunch, bundle, cluster, fardel, fascicle, pack, trousseau), skele (scaffold, scaffolding, stage, staging, trestle), privezati (bind, tether, tie down), podupreti (bolster, brace, buttress, prop up, shore, shore up, stay, support, underlay, underpin), podupirač (brace, bracket, buttress, shore, spur, stanchion, stay, strut, support, underlay), nosač (atlas, bellboy, bellhop, cantilever, carrier, girder, porter, redcap, tranter), bandažirati (bandage). (various references)

Spanish

racimo (bunch, cluster, racemation, raceme), paquete (Dandy, gift, joke, lump, outstanding person, pack, package, packet, paper, parcel, task, trick), liar (attach, bind, bundle, connect, do up, fasten, foul up, join, ligate, link, roll, tie, tie back, tie together, tie up, wrap up), lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuck up, fuss, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, wad), haz (band, beam, bundle, face, pencil, sheaf, shower), fardo (bale), espetar (Pierce, rap out, run through, skewer, snap out, spit, transfix), entramado (framework), enrejado (grating, grille, lattice, trellis), costilla o cercha portadora (girder), braguero (brace), atar (attach, band, bind, brace, fasten, hitch, knot, lash, lash down, shackle, strand, tether, tie, tie back, tie down, tie on, tie together, tie up, truss up, wad), apuntalar (brace, pin, pin up, prop, prop up, shore, shore up, underpin), apoyar con entramado. (various references)

Swedish

binda (attach, bind, connect, contain, fasten, filet, fillet, hold, immobilize, join, peg down, roller bandage, secure, tie, tie down, tie up). (various references)

Turkish

takviye iskeleti, kasık bağı (suspensory, suspensory bandage), köprü makası, ipe çekmek (halter, hang, string up), fıtık bağı, destek koymak (chock, prop, prop up, underpin), destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, underlay, upholder), demet yapmak (sheaf, sheave, shock, tie in bunches, tie in sheaves, tie up in a bunch), demet (bouquet, bunch, bundle, cluster, corymb, fascicle, fascicule, hand, sheaf, shock, tuft), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, unite, Wed), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, string, tie, tie up, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, wag). (various references)

Ukrainian

суцвіття (inflorescence), скручувати (convolve, roll, twist up, wring), в'язка (band, bunch, bundle, rope), оберемок (armful, bale, pitch), зв'язувати в пучки. (various references)

Welsh

gwregys (belt, girdle, zone). (various references)

trusser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "truss": trussed, trusser, trussers, trusses, trussing, trussings. (additional references)

Words ending with "truss": untruss. (additional references)

Words containing "truss": untrussed, untrusses, untrussing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Truss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thruss, Tpus, trassi, Triss, Troissy, tross, trous, trouses, trsd, trubs, truds, trues, trugs, truns, trus, truse, trusess, trush, truso, Trusov, trusse, trusso, truws, truz, tryus, turds, turs, turus, tuss, tyrus, Tzus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rusts.

-1 letter: rust, ruts.

-2 letters: rut, uts.

-3 letters: us, ut.

+1 letter: bursts, crusts, estrus, hursts, rousts, russet, spurts, stours, strums, struts, sturts, surest, sutras, tarsus, trusts, tsuris, tussar, tusser, tussor, tussur, wursts.

+2 letters: aurists, busters, crusets, dusters, estrous, estrums, jurists, justers, lusters, lustres, musters, oestrus, ousters, purists, results, russets, russety, rustics, rustles, santurs, sistrum, sourest, souters, sprouts, squirts, stoures, stratus, strouds, strumas, strunts, stupors, suiters, suitors, sutlers, sutures, thrusts, thyrsus, trismus, truisms, trussed, trusser, trusses, tsouris, tuskers, tussars, tussers, tussore, tussors, tussurs, ulsters, unrests, untruss, upstirs.