STRUT
What does "STRUT" mean?
To walk with a proud, stiff, self-important gait.
Meanings
- To walk in a confident, swaggering, or vain manner. He strutted across the stage like he owned it.
- A rigid bar or rod that braces a framework and resists compression. A cracked strut in the suspension made the car rattle. technical
- A proud, swaggering way of walking. There was a fresh strut in her step after the win.
Did you know?
- In structural engineering a strut and a tie are opposites: a strut is built to resist being squashed (compression), while a tie resists being pulled apart (tension).
Word origin
The 'walk proudly' sense is from Old English 'strutian', to stand out stiffly. The structural 'strut' (a brace) is related, sharing the idea of something rigid and bracing.
Remember it
STRUT - a peacock STRUTs stiffly, the same stiffness that lets a metal strut hold up a frame.
A little poem
Chest out, slow parade-
the rooster owns the barnyard
until the fox comes.
haiku
Wordplay
- The engineer was great at parties: she could really hold a frame up and still strut.
What it teaches
Both kinds of strut share one job - bearing weight - but only one of them admits it.
Quick facts
What does STRUT mean?
To walk with a proud, stiff, self-important gait.
Is STRUT a valid word?
Yes — STRUT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STRUT?
STRUT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does STRUT come from?
The 'walk proudly' sense is from Old English 'strutian', to stand out stiffly. The structural 'strut' (a brace) is related, sharing the idea of something rigid and bracing.
What can STRUT teach us?
Both kinds of strut share one job - bearing weight - but only one of them admits it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.