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Framework vs Truss - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between framework and truss

is that framework is   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size while truss is a bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

As a verb truss is

to tie up a bird before cooking it.

framework

English

(wikipedia framework)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  • (figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  • (figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
  • (literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

    • Derived terms

    * architectural framework * framework agreement * software framework

    truss

    English

    (wikipedia truss)

    Noun

    (trusses)
  • A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , author=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , title=Professional Guide to Diseases , chapter=4 , isbn=0781778999 , page=280 , passage=A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.}}
  • (architecture) 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.
  • (architecture) 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.
  • (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
  • * Spenser
    • bearing a truss of trifles at his back
  • (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
  • * Drayton
    • Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss , which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
  • (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
  • (botany) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
  • (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To tie up a bird before cooking it.
  • To secure or bind with ropes.
  • To support.
  • To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
  • * Spenser
    • who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
  • To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
  • (slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up .
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

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