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.

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