protrusion, projection, jut, jutting
(noun) the act of projecting out from something
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; āthe gun in his pocket made an obvious bulgeā; āthe hump of a camelā; āhe stood on the rocky prominenceā; āthe occipital protuberance was well developedā; āthe bony excrescence between its hornsā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
jut (third-person singular simple present juts, present participle jutting, simple past and past participle jutted)
(intransitive) To stick out.
(obsolete) To butt.
jut (plural juts)
Something that sticks out.
Synonyms: outcrop, protrusion
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Jut
Dated form of Jat.
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Source: Wiktionary
Jut, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] Etym: [A corruption of jet.]
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. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.
2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." Mason.
Jut, n.
1. That which projects or juts; a projection.
2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; ātheir business venture was doomed from the startā; āan ill-fated business ventureā; āan ill-starred romanceā; āthe unlucky prisoner was again put in ironsā- W.H.Prescott
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
