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STRUT

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: strutted    , strutting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A proud stiff pompous gait

Synonyms:

prance; strut; swagger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

He struts around like a rooster in a hen house

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Roasted peacocks, with the feathers all carefully replaced, so that the bird lay upon the dish even as it had strutted in life, boars' heads with the tusks gilded and the mouth lined with silver foil, jellies in the shape of the Twelve Apostles, and a great pasty which formed an exact model of the king's new castle at Windsor—these were a few of the strange dishes which faced him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)