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Jut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Jut has 2 senses
- jut(n = noun.shape) bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling - 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" has particulars: frontal eminence, occipital protuberance, belly, caput, mogul, nub, nubble, snag, wart
- jut(n = noun.act) jutting, projection, protrusion - the act of projecting out from something; Array is a kind of change of shape
is a kind of projection
Verb Jut has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Jut, v. i. [A corruption of jet.].
- To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]"It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem." [1913 Webster]
- To butt. Mason. [1913 Webster]
Jut, n.
- That which projects or juts; a projection. [1913 Webster]
- A shove; a push. Udall. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Jut, v. & n.
--v.intr. (jutted, jutting) out, forth) protrude, project.
--n. a projection; a protruding point.
--v.intr. (jutted, jutting) out, forth) protrude, project.
--n. a projection; a protruding point.
Etymology
var. of JET(1)
THESAURUS
Jut
arch over, beetle, bestraddle, bestride, bridge, bristle up, bulge, cock up, elongate, extend, extend over, extrude, hang out, hang over, imbricate, impend, impend over, jut out, lap, lap over, lean over, lengthen, lie over, overarch, overhang, overlap, overlie, override, poke, poke out, pouch, pout, project, project over, protrude, protrusion, protuberance, protuberate, shingle, shoot out, shoot up, span, stand out, start up, stick out, stick up, thrust over
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