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JUT

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Irregular inflected forms: jutted    , jutting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of projecting out from something

Synonyms:

jut; jutting; projection; protrusion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

change of shape (an action that changes the shape of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Example:

the bony excrescence between its horns

Synonyms:

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jut"):

frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)

occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)

belly (a part that bulges deeply)

caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)

mogul (a bump on a ski slope)

nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)

snag (a sharp protuberance)

wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extend out or project in space

Example:

A single rock sticks out from the cliff

Synonyms:

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jut"):

overhang (project over)

push up; thrust (push upward)

spear; spear up (thrust up like a spear)

bag; bulge (bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge)

cantilever (project as a cantilever)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

jutting (the act of projecting out from something)

Credits

 Context examples: 

His face was pale and handsome, with a prominent chin, a jutting nose, and large blue staring eyes, in which a sort of dancing, mischievous light was for ever playing.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So close was it that the point ripped a gash in the jutting edge of his linen cyclas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun had shone out in the evening, and I had come down with my fishing-rod (for I had promised Boy Jim to go with him to the mill-stream), when what should I see but a post-chaise with two smoking horses at the gate, and there in the open door of it were my mother’s black skirt and her little feet jutting out, with two blue arms for a waist-belt, and all the rest of her buried in the chaise.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His features were small, delicate, and regular, with clear-cut, curving nose, and eyes which jutted forward from the lids.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The archer was standing with folded arms, his bow jutting from over his shoulder, and the sun gleaming brightly upon his head-piece and the links of his chain-mail.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From each man's girdle hung sword or axe, according to his humor, and over the right hip there jutted out the leathern quiver with its bristle of goose, pigeon, and peacock feathers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a toilsome march over broken ground and through snow, which came often as high as the knee, yet ere the sun had begun to sink they had reached the spot where the gorge opens out on to the uplands of Navarre, and could see the towers of Pampeluna jutting up against the southern sky-line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)