Jutting

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jutting \Jut"ting\, a.
     Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- {Jut"ting*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jutted}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Jutting}.] [A corruption of jet.]
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     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.
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              It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
                                                    --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
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     2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jut
       n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
            a form [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
             {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
             {excrescence}]
       2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: {protrusion},
           {projection}, {jutting}]
       v : 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}, {project}]
       [also: {jutting}, {jutted}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jutting
       adj : extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the
             jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected
             buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards
             sticking over the end of his truck" [syn: {projected},
             {projecting}, {protruding}, {sticking(p)}, {sticking
             out(p)}]
       n : the act of projecting out from something [syn: {protrusion},
            {projection}, {jut}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jutting
       See {jut}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "jutting":
     beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, bold, eminent, emissile,
     excrescent, excrescential, extruding, impendence, impendency,
     impendent, impending, incumbent, lowering, outstanding, overhang,
     overhanging, overhung, pending, prognathous, projecting,
     projection, prominent, protrudent, protruding, protrusile,
     protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, salient, superincumbent