Tress vs. Truss — What's the Difference?

A long lock or ringlet of hair.

A truss is an assembly of beams or other elements that creates a rigid structure.In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A "two-force member" is a structural component where force is applied to only two points.

(Archaic) A plait or braid of hair.

(Medicine) A supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia.

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

A rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof.

A long lock of hair

An architectural bracket.

(by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Something gathered into a bundle; a pack.

To braid or knot hair.

(Nautical) An iron fitting by which a lower yard is secured to a mast.

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

(Botany) A compact cluster of flowers at the end of a stalk.

Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

To tie up or bind tightly.

A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

To bind or skewer the wings or legs of (a fowl) before cooking.

To support or brace with a truss.

A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

(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.

(historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.

(historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

(botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits 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.

(transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.

(transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.

(transitive) To support.

To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.

To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss.

To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

To execute by hanging; to hang; - usually with up.

(medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

A framework of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss)

(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

Tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

Secure with or as if with ropes;

Support structurally;