Truss



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.桁架, 支架

Webster Collegiate

I. transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English to pack, load, bind, from Anglo-French trusser, trousser, from Vulgar Latin *torsare, from *torsus twisted — more at torsade
• Date: 13th century
• 1.
  • a. to secure tightly ; bind
  • b. to arrange for cooking by binding close the wings or legs of (a fowl)
• 2. to support, strengthen, or stiffen by or as if by a truss
• ? trusser noun

II. noun

• Date: 13th century
• 1. an iron band around a lower mast with an attachment by which a yard is secured to the mast
• 2.
  • a. bracket 1
  • b. an assemblage of members (as beams) forming a rigid framework
• 3. a device worn to reduce a hernia by pressure
• 4. a compact flower or fruit cluster

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