Truss

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

   “A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.”

2. isim A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.

   “The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons.”

3. isim A triangular bracket.
4. isim An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
5. isim A bundle; a package.

   “bearing a truss of trifles at his back”

6. isim A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.

   “Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore / The stains of ancient arms.”

7. isim Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
8. isim A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
9. isim The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
10. fiil To tie up a bird before cooking it.
11. fiil To secure or bind with ropes.

    “Very largely haue I inueighed againſt this vice [gluttony] elſvvhere, vvherefore heere I vvill truſſe it vp more ſurcinct;^([sic – meaning succinct]) […]”

12. fiil To support.
13. fiil To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

    “who trussing me as eagle doth his prey”

14. fiil To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
15. fiil To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

    “If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing”

16. özel isim A surname from Old French.

    “In her speech to the Atlantic Council, Truss will say: “Putin has launched a full-frontal assault not just on the Ukrainian people, but also on the very foundation of our societies and the rules by which we coexist – sovereignty, democracy, the UN charter.”