strut
IPA: strˈʌt
noun
- (also figuratively) A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
- (historical) An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
- (chiefly construction) A beam or rod providing support.
- An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
verb
- (intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
- (intransitive, by extension, also figuratively) To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
- (transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
- (transitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.
- (transitive, chiefly construction, also figuratively) To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
- (intransitive) To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
adjective
- (obsolete) Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen.
- (Scotland, obsolete) Drunk, intoxicated; fou.
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Examples of "strut" in Sentences
- Who is the man strutting
- Dancers strut on the stage.
- The baby pretended to strut.
- He is strutting like a model.
- The boys struts among the crowd.
- Miss Universe struts with her beauty.
- Most of the skull consisted of bone struts.
- The fabric is slightly stretched by the strut.
- I was puzzled by the idea of the strut rotating.
- Science is shamed by such vainglorious strutting.
- The soundtrack to your strut is the catchy and hypnotic sound of the driving game
- A strut is a structural load carrying element which transfers loads between two points.
- Puffed up in strut, a gobbler presents an inviting target, but the vital area is only the size of your fist.
- This may well, I grant you, be an inequality that deserves to bechallenged — but apeing the swaggering male strut is not the way to go about it.
- "Like with Kara, for example, we wrote 'Strut' together with Greg Wells, and the idea of strut was actually her concept," Lambert told MTV News.
- The US is our closest and only meaningful ally, the main strut of international security and the power that has, in the last resort been our friend.
- To-night, proud as was the part of the Prince as regal Harry, his strut was a shamble compared with the imperious stalk of von Chronicle as the arrogant and ambitious Wolsey.
- In place of the regular, inverted 'L'-shaped lower suspension mount, RevoKnuckle features a' C'-shaped mount, connected to both the wheel hub, via two arms and to the strut, which is attached at its top.
- The noble bird, now certain of success, fairly dances with delight; he starts forward, his feathers and neck amorously playing as he advances; now he commences his "strut" - his slender body swells, the beautiful plumage of his breast Infolds itself - his neck curves, drawing the neck downward - the wattles grow scarlet, while the skin that covers the head changes like rainbow tints.