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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings;
- Example: "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"
- Example: "the hump of a camel"
- Example: "he stood on the rocky prominence"
- Example: "the occipital protuberance was well developed"
- Example: "the bony excrescence between its horns"
[syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

2. the act of projecting out from something;
[syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]


VERB (1)

1. extend out or project in space;
- Example: "His sharp nose jutted out"
- Example: "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"
[syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.] [1913 Webster] 1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jut \Jut\, n. 1. That which projects or juts; a projection. [1913 Webster] 2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] --Udall. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jut n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting] v 1: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project]