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Protuberance, air pressure
verb
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To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out.
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(originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
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To walk proudly or haughtily.
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He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.
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To cause to swell; enlarge; give more importance to.
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To protrude; cause to bulge.
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A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking.
noun
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A support rod.
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An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
verb
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To brace or support by a strut or struts; hold in place or strengthen by an upright, diagonal, or transverse support.
Examples of struts in a Sentence
The struts and ties are called bracing bars.
The houses are built of wood and bamboo; and as the use of diagonal struts is not practised, the walls soon lean over from the force of the winds.
The compression members are of timber, except the struts and bottom chord panels next the river piers, which are of steel.
The Howe truss had timber chords and a lattice of timber struts, with vertical iron ties.
In the Pratt truss the struts were vertical and the ties inclined.
The moulds for the face of a wall consist generally of wooden shutters, leaning against upright timbers which are secured by horizontal or raking struts to firm ground, or to anything that will bear the weight.
The sectional areas are computed by the use of the ordinary formulae for columns and struts.
He struts his banal clichéd image and sets out to alter its course according to his inner world.
The struts of the high girders, which plunge down from the top like the tracks of a rollercoaster, are not absolutely straight.
Units under the inner engine nacelles, each consisting of one wheel and two shock absorber struts.
From these beams sloping struts carry the lower purlins.
Rows of paving slabs, treated timber struts or a solid concrete base are good base choices.
The floor folds flat to spread the lower ribs whilst the upper strakes are kept tight to the struts.
Walls as nave and roof of two bays also as nave but trusses lack raking struts.
The next step was to mount the 12 wing struts on the lower wing.
Two-centred wooden archway on south, the arch acting as bracing for a peaked collar with cusped struts above.
There was a bench of wooden struts stretching along the back wall for our beds.
The lockable lid features twin gas struts for safety and ease of use.
Of even more significance is the revision to all four suspension struts which are now inverted - just like the WRC rally car.
The roof has three bays formed by three arch-braced collar trusses with king struts reaching to shorter collars above.
Roof of four arch-braced collar trusses with king and arcing struts; intermediate trusses with collars and king struts; rafters and through purlins.
Flagged floor; walls roughly plastered and whitewashed; roof has rafters, purlins and one tie-beam truss with struts - some old timbers.
Interior of barn has 2 pegged king-post trusses with struts.
The two lines of posts are the remains of the original SER canopy struts which were literally sawn off.
Note the subway entrance beyond the canopy struts, which now has a downward sloping roof.
Roof of four and a half bays with arch-braced collar trusses and raking struts, flat purlins and two tiers of cusped windbraces.
The five canopy supporting struts still remain, however, as does the original valance design.
They stay away from each other for the most part, but the younger one struts around like he owns the place.
The landing gear is somewhat complex and you'll likely need to do some cleanup on the struts.
For shaft linings steel rings of H or channel section supported by intermediate struts are also used, and cross-bearers or buntons of steel joists and rail guides are now generally substituted for wood.
When the coal has been under-cut for a sufficient length, the struts are withdrawn, and the overhanging mass is allowed to fall during the time that the workmen are out of the pit, or it may be brought down by driving wedges, or if it be of a compact character a blast in a borehole near the roof may be required.
The fan has eight arms, framed together of wrought iron bars, with diagonal struts, so as to obtain rigidity with comparative lightness, carrying flat close-boarded blades at their extremities.
The top flange consisted of cast iron hollow castings butted end to end, and the struts were of cast iron.