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PROTRUDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
Example:
a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck
Synonyms:
jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out
Classified under:
Similar:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb protrude
Context examples:
There were four protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from the roots.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was lying on his side, dead where he had dragged himself, an arrow protruding, head and feathers, from either side of his body.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The Micawber family were lodged in a little, dirty, tumble-down public-house, which in those days was close to the stairs, and whose protruding wooden rooms overhung the river.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His face was swollen and coarse, and his watery protruding eyes spoke of a life which never wandered very far from the wine-pot.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I felt that my hair was rising, that my eyes were protruding, that my mouth was opened, and my tongue like leather.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is characterized by developmental abnormalities in the bones and teeth, including the complete or partial absence of the clavicles, delayed closure of the fontanels, protruding mandible, hypertelorism, scoliosis, and short stature.
(Cleidocranial Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
But around 75% of the ice sheet is fringed by floating ice shelves, which are up to a kilometre thick, mostly below sea level, but with tens of metres of their total height protruding above the water.
(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Your chest is heaving, your tongue protruding, your skin turning dark, your eyes swimming. ‘To live! To live! To live!’ you are crying; and you are crying to live here and now, not hereafter.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Some of the most common body parts people want to improve through surgery include: • Breasts: Increase or reduce the size of breasts or reshape sagging breasts • Ears: Reduce the size of large ears or set protruding ears back closer to the head • Eyes: Correct drooping upper eyelids or remove puffy bags below the eyes • Face: Remove facial wrinkles, creases or acne scars • Hair: Fill in balding areas with one's own hair • Nose: Change the shape of the nose • Tummy: Flatten the abdomen
(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)
It was shallow, for in many places I saw low sandbanks protruding above the water.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
