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JUT OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jut out mean?
• JUT OUT (verb)
The verb JUT OUT has 1 sense:
1. extend out or project in space
Familiarity information: JUT OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 out"):
overhang (project over)
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
Context examples
Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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