Truss vs Twig - What's the difference?
truss | twig |
A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
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(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.
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(historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
* Drayton
(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.
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
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 .
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
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(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.
:* He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.
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To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
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* Hawthorne
As nouns the difference between truss and twig
is that truss is baggage while twig is a small thin branch of a tree or bush.As a verb twig is
to beat with twigs or twig can be (colloquial|regional) to realise something; to catch on or twig can be (obsolete|scotland) to twitch; to pull; to tweak.truss
English
(wikipedia truss)Noun
(trusses)- bearing a truss of trifles at his back
- Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss , which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
Verb
(es)- who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Anagrams
*twig
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) twigge, from (etyl) . More at two.Noun
(wikipedia twig) (en noun)- They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
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Derived terms
*Verb
(twigg)Etymology 2
From (etyl) and (etyl) .Verb
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- Do you twig me?
- Now twig him; now mind him.
- as if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal