JUT (jutted, jutting)

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Irregular inflected forms: jutted    , jutting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does jut mean? 

• JUT (noun)
  The noun JUT has 2 senses:

1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

2. the act of projecting out from something

  Familiarity information: JUT used as a noun is rare.

• JUT (verb)
  The verb JUT has 1 sense:

1. extend out or project in space

  Familiarity information: JUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

the bony excrescence between its horns

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of projecting out from something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jut; jutting; projection; protrusion

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

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

• JUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jut    ... he / she / it juts   
Past simple: jutted   
Past participle: jutted   
-ing form: jutting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extend out or project in space

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out

Context example:

A single rock sticks out from the cliff

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)

 Context examples 

At the same instant the man stumbled forward upon his knees, and lay lifeless upon the deck, a blood-stained feather jutting out from his back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember the high, oak-panelled walls, with the heads of deer jutting out, and a single white bust, which sent my heart into my mouth, in the corner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have said that his Alpine-stock had been left leaning against a rock which jutted on to the path.

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

Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner’s dwelling.

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

The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Thornton poled the boat out into the stream, ran down the bank with the end in his hand to snub the boat when it had cleared the ledge.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Just before dinner, starting for the beach with an empty barrel, they altered their course and bore away to the left to round the promontory which jutted into the sea between them and liberty.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Bird life was abundant, especially the wading birds, stork, heron, and ibis gathering in little groups, blue, scarlet, and white, upon every log which jutted from the bank, while beneath us the crystal water was alive with fish of every shape and color.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)