STRUT (strutted, strutting)

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Irregular inflected forms: strutted    , strutting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does strut mean? 

• STRUT (noun)
  The noun STRUT has 2 senses:

1. a proud stiff pompous gait

2. brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression

  Familiarity information: STRUT used as a noun is rare.

• STRUT (verb)
  The verb STRUT has 1 sense:

1. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

  Familiarity information: STRUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A proud stiff pompous gait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

prance; strut; swagger

Hypernyms ("strut" is a kind of...):

gait (a person's manner of walking)

Derivation:

strut (to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("strut" is a kind of...):

brace; bracing (a structural member used to stiffen a framework)

• STRUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they strut    ... he / she / it struts   
Past simple: strutted   
Past participle: strutted   
-ing form: strutting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cock; prance; ruffle; sashay; strut; swagger; tittup

Context example:

He struts around like a rooster in a hen house

Hypernyms (to "strut" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children strut to the playground

Derivation:

strut (a proud stiff pompous gait)

 Context examples 

MTs can transmit mechanical signals and, like rods or struts, resist compression in contracting heart cells.

(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)

The researchers were able to increase the material's fatigue life by up to 100 times by strengthening internal rod-like struts.

(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)

And you're responsible for it, what of your man, who is always the erected, the vitalized inorganic, the latest of the ephemera, the creature of temperature strutting his little space on the thermometer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Challenger struts about like a prize peacock, and Summerlee is silent, but still sceptical.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Which weapon hath the vantage now?” cried the Brabanter, strutting proudly about with shouldered arbalest, amid the applause of his companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a day at a time he would lie in the underbrush where he could watch the partridges drumming and strutting up and down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For, after having been accustomed several months to the sight and converse of this people, and observed every object upon which I cast mine eyes to be of proportionable magnitude, the horror I had at first conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn off, that if I had then beheld a company of English lords and ladies in their finery and birth-day clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating, to say the truth, I should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees did at me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at Fladong’s, in Oxford Street, which was reserved as entirely for the Navy as Slaughter’s was for the Army, or Ibbetson’s for the Church of England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers determined that microtubules, a type of molecular “strut,” play a key role in regulating contractile function in mouse and rat heart cells.

(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)

We have been privileged, he cried, strutting about like a gamecock, to be present at one of the typical decisive battles of history—the battles which have determined the fate of the world.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)