(v. t.) To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
(n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
(n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
(n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
(v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
(a.) Protuberant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(2) Thereafter, 27S species adsorbed avidly to it and collapsed into characteristic configurations containing four globular domains, each linked to the others by three approximately 33-nm struts.
(3) The autogeneic fibula dove-tailed strut graft is favored over an iliac crest bone graft because with multilevel decompression in the cervical spine, it provided structural stability and a high union rate.
(4) Percent lumen reduction was 19% in group A, 26% in group B, and 24% in group C. Marked smooth muscle cell hyperplasia was seen by light and transmission electron microscopy at stent struts.
(5) One patient, who was asymptomatic, was discovered to have a prosthesis with two fractured struts.
(6) Varying degrees of thrombus formation were observed in the minor outflow region, including the depression in the aortic face of the disc and the metal strut bridging this area.
(7) This is the stuff women are thinking about all the time, even as we brazenly strut through grocery store parking lots at eight in the morning, wearing overalls, with our hair in ponytails.
(8) During lateral walking, movements of the M-C joint provide most of the propulsive force, whereas during forward and backward walking this joint function more as a strut (fig.
(9) Comminuted body fractures are best treated with an anterior strut graft.
(10) Excluding complications specific to the fibular transfer procedure, the complications in the Group-I patients (six recurrent postoperative infections, one fracture of the graft, and one non-union of a fibular strut graft) were approximately as frequent as those in the Group-II patients (one failure of fusion and two fractures of the graft).
(11) A comminuted burst ("teardrop") fracture produced by axial loading of the vertebral bodies should be stabilized by an anterior cortical strut graft for early mobilization and realignment of the spinal column to prevent progressive deformity.
(12) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(13) (b) Strut arrays, representing nine sites where the basal body attaches to the membrane, appear to serve a mechanical function.
(14) The cage-like implant has ridges or teeth to resist pullout or retropulsion, struts to support weight bearing, and a hollow center for packing of autologous bone graft.
(15) A biomechanical study was performed comparing the stiffness and stability of the three-level combination spinal rod-plate and transpedicular screw (CSRP-TPS) fixation system with those of three anterior stabilization constructs that spanned three vertebral levels: iliac strut grafting, polymethylmethacrylate and anterior Harrington rod instrumentation (technique of Siegal et al.
(16) Strut fracture in a De Bakey aortic valve is reported.
(17) Elastic moduli of the composite myocyte-sheath complex and the strut matrix are estimated from existing passive biaxial loading data from sheets of canine myocardium.
(18) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
(19) Using type III struts, we have obtained stabilization of the flail chest in all cases even in patients with severe anterior paradoxical movement.
(20) Seeing him strut his stuff, actually quite human, you were conscious that here was a straight man of mixed heritage who wore women’s underwear while channelling Jimi Hendrix.
Sturt
Definition:
(v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
(n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.
(n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of them proceed from crossings between psychiatric case register and death-register, and concern inpatients only (Brook, Giel, Saugstad, Mortensen, Herman, Haugland, Rorsman, Sturt, Winokur, Zilber).
(2) An Australian Greens MP, David Shoebridge, told NSW parliament it was “offensive in the extreme” that Dines was associated with Charles Sturt University’s policing programs.
(3) Gove also announced the appointment of a new director of prison security, Claudia Sturt, that governors in four prisons will be allowed maximum autonomy under current legislation from July, and urged governors to make greater use of the temporary licence release scheme.
(4) A pattern similar to that previously found in a younger sample (Sturt, 1981) was evident.
(5) Dines declined to comment on his role at Charles Sturt University.
(6) Tuesday 21 June Details Sydney Date: Wednesday 15 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: Giant Dwarf, 199 Cleveland Street, Chippendale Price: $30 Melbourne Date: Tuesday 21 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: The Coopers Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank Price: $30 Returns policy Tickets are non-refundable.
(7) In 2010, he was hired by the Australian graduate school of policing and security at Charles Sturt University, near Sydney, where he is the associate head of school.
(8) Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian “Was Charles Sturt University aware of John Dines past before they employed him?
(9) The University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian National University and Charles Sturt all provided estimates of 30% to Guardian Australia, while the University of Canberra predicted a 20% rise.
(10) A morphogenetic map based on these sturt distances resembles more closely in size and shape that of a single thoracic segment than that of two or more adjacent segments, suggesting that the eye-antenna disc is derived from a single embryonic body segment.
(11) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the flag – one for each of the six current states and one, sitting at the top, representing the north as the inevitable seventh.
(12) Tobias Sturt was head of creative at the Guardian’s digital agency and is now creative director of Graphic.
(13) The Guardian can reveal that for the past five years he has been working at Australia’s leading graduate police college at Charles Sturt University in Sydney where he is a course director on training courses.
(14) Led by Tobias Sturt and Adam Frost from Graphic, a specialist data visualisation agency, this fantastic class comprises a series of lectures and workshops, plus opportunities to get expert feedback on your work.
(15) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the emblem in 1978; a petal for each of the six current states and one – at the top of course – for the North as the inevitable seventh.
(16) The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, said he feared Abbott was “far more concerned about Christopher Pyne’s job [in the SA seat of Sturt] than the jobs of hundreds of Victorian shipbuilders”.
(17) We examined the pattern of gynandromorph mosaicism and determined the "sturt distances" between 42 different structures of the head, antenna, and maxillary palpus.
(18) He must cease any involvement with teaching police in this state before a similar apology is needed by the New South Wales police.” Charles Sturt University’s executive dean of the faculty of arts, professor Tracey Green, said Dines’s role at the university as a business manager was “solely administrative” and did not involve police training.