Truss

What do we mean by truss?

A supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia. noun

A rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof. noun

An architectural bracket. noun

Something gathered into a bundle; a pack. noun

An iron fitting by which a lower yard is secured to a mast. noun

A compact cluster of flowers at the end of a stalk. noun

To tie up or bind tightly. transitive verb

To bind or skewer the wings or legs of (a fowl) before cooking. transitive verb

To support or brace with a truss. transitive verb

Bunchy; stumpy; stocky; round and thick.

A bundle; pack. noun

Specifically A bundle of hay or straw. noun

In horticulture, a compact terminal flower-cluster of any kind, as an umbel, corymb, or spike. noun

In surgery, an appliance consisting of a belt or an elastic steel spring encircling the body, to which is attached a pad, used in cases of rupture to hinder the descent of the parts, or to prevent an increase in size of an irreducible hernia. noun

A garment worn in the sixteenth century and previously: probably so called from being laced closely to the person. noun

Plural Trousers; tight-fitting drawers. See trouse, trousers. noun

In building, a stiff frame; a combination of timbers, of iron parts, or of timbers and ironwork, so arranged as to constitute an unyielding frame. noun

In architecture, a large corbel or modillion supporting a mural monument or any object projecting from the face of a wall. See crosset, 1 , with cut. noun

In ship-building, a short piece of carved work fitted under the taffrail: chiefly used in small ships. noun

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

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.

A triangular bracket.

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.

A bundle; a package.

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

Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

Words that are spelled similarly to truss:
truss, trust, tress, triss, russ, trass, trus, trusts, trush, bruss, gruss, tuss, truls, trubs, trues, thuss, pruss, tross, trups, trugs, struss, truse.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word truss:
girder, camelback, spans, lenticular, whipple, bracing, cantilever, riveted, span, bridge, bridges, laminated, roadway, wrought, rafters, piers, diagonal, iss, vehicular, pratt, spar, arch, rod, rods, chords, plank, deck, viaduct, rests, spanning, burr, patented, carries, pony, fabricated, beams, lattice, compression, chord, arches, siding, concrete, tension, robotic, framing, width, joints, resting, howe, gable, timber, roof, payload, beam, loads, swing, vertical, rigid, masonry, covered, steel, clearance, structure, register, wyoming, panels, segment, wooden, constructed, ceiling, pedestrian, iron, reinforced, longest, crossing, fuselage, creek, connects, neck, structural, horizontal, eva, traffic, feet, historic, connecting, built, carrying, shuttle, railroad, downstream, lift, curved, listed, warren, length, measuring, design, configuration, fabric.

Words that rhyme with truss:
bus, thus, superfluous, plus, discuss, fuss, us, cuss, wuss, puss, pus, suss, buss, schuss, brusk, gus, sus, russe, huss, tusche, russ, charlotte russe, rus, minibus, quice, adjusts, trus, cus, sluss, school bus, bruss, guss, gruss, brus, kus, tusseh, nuss, busse, wass, shuttle bus, gloomy gus, kuss, usphs, prus, shas, pruss, banderas, xus, camping bus, fuhs, genus sus, schoolbus, struss, mistrusts, muhs, express bus, krus, papenfuss, eurailpass, klus, barfuss, careplus, ghattas, goldfus, hasenfus, muckenfuss, nonpluss, vanhuss.

Adjectives that are often used to describe truss:
simple, triangular, post, main, continuous, entire, double, wooden, determinate, connected, indeterminate, single, riveted, ordinary, whole, jointed, typical, panel, horizontal, chord, lateral, central, light, secondary, primary, original, vertical, fitting, arched, complex, open, dimensional, rigid, loaded, actual, complete, heavy, parallel, scissors, flat, welded, ideal, foot, symmetrical, trapezoidal, upper, through, type, quadrangular, deep, composite, subdivided, suitable, suspended, member, top, curved, bridge, spere, braced, shaped, hinged, intermediate, elastic, parabolic, triangulated, partial, concrete, stiffening, front, middle, lenticular, redundant, outer, inverted, lightweight.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective truss:
bridge, bridges, spans, span, construction, structure, system, roof, members, type, design, joists, rod, member, studs, frame, analysis, systems, joints, joist, problem, stiffened, structures, core, model, cantilever, ceiling, loads, equations, fuselage, assembly, roofs, configuration, building, example, frames, beams, maker, splices, connections, buildings, assemblies, connection, deck, fixers, girders, panels, chord, stresses, details, framing, layout, post.

Consonant match to truss:
trace, truce, trice, tress, trass, trus, treece.

Words that sound like truss:
truss, trus, torous, tress, tris, triss, teris, taris, tresse, trace, truce, trice, tross, trece, trass, treece, trouse, terrasse, trousse, dras, triz, trust, trees, dress, tries, trucks, terrace, taurus, terse, tra, trays, tus, turks, tious, turrets, trex, trues, tuss, teras, torus, tous, treese, trussed, trush, tarus, tras, treas, treys, trews, tyrus, tros, struss, troise, turdus, troys, turnus, dris, icterus, troyes, driss, terce, turris, tarrace, treize, trows, atrous, traa, trups, torose, termos, terts, trusser, iris, heiress, dross, thrace, irus, gerous, arris, arus, cerous, druce, urus, drass, irous, stress, tess, tes, tiss, tourettes, terris, tares, teressa, toris, tius, tourette's, t s, teresh, ptis, tiris.