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Truss vs Frames - What's the difference?

truss | frames |

As nouns the difference between truss and frames

is that truss is baggage while frames is .

As a verb frames is

(frame).

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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    frames

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (frame)
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