struts's Usage Examples:

Lockable tinted glass tailgate on twin gas struts, and high level brake light.

Jon Boden struts and rants like Mick Jagger 's grandson and with almost as much presence as the old trouper himself.

The top flange consisted of cast iron hollow castings butted end to end, and the struts were of cast iron.

In the Pratt truss the struts were vertical and the ties inclined.

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.

- A frame is a rigid structure composed of straight struts and ties.

The struts and ties are called bracing bars.

The Howe truss had timber chords and a lattice of timber struts, with vertical iron ties.

Units under the inner engine nacelles, each consisting of one wheel and two shock absorber 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.

Your performance throughout showed you to be a wonderful performer - a REAL trouper !Really she's just a true professional trouper, what more do we need?Jon Boden struts and rants like Mick Jagger's grandson and with almost as much presence as the old trouper himself.

From these beams sloping struts carry the lower purlins.

Warren type in which the bracing bars form equilateral triangles, the Whipple Murphy in which the struts are vertical and the ties inclined, and the lattice in which both struts and ties are inclined at equal angles, usually 45° with the horizontal.

Synonyms:

gait, swagger, prance,

Antonyms:

misbehave, unfashionable, stand still, stay in place,