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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To extend outward or upward beyond the limits of the main body; project: "He had a sharp crooked nose jutting out of a lean dancer's face” ( Graham Greene).
  2. v. To cause to jut. See Synonyms at bulge.
  3. n. Something that protrudes; a projection.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To strike; shove; butt.
  2. To project forward; extend beyond the main body or line: as, the jutting part of a building: often with out.
  3. n. That which juts; a projection.
  4. n. A jostle; a shove; a thrust.

Wiktionary

  1. n. something that sticks out
  2. v. intransitive to stick out

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body.
  2. v. obsolete To butt.
  3. n. That which projects or juts; a projection.
  4. n. obsolete A shove; a push.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. extend out or project in space
  2. n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  3. n. the act of projecting out from something

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, alteration of jet, cognate with jetty (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English jutten, from gete, iutei, jetty, projecting upper story, from Old French jetee; see jetty1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The way you call jut to tell me to look at the stars.”

    simplymine Diary Entry

  • “The upper stories project; and from these again jut windows of delicate turned latticework in old brown wood, like big bird-cages.”

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

  • “At other times the Grey valley is green and pleasant, excepting where the masses of grey rock from which it has its name jut out over the river.”

    Grey Town An Australian Story

  • “Most of the stuff that comes before and after the "jut" is innocuous.”

    Obama Holds Sizable Lead In Today's Tracking Polls

  • “You see the surf still behind me, there's a number of these cuts (ph) that kind of jut out.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2007

  • “We here are south of that area, kind of jut out on an island.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2006

  • “Being also a first year student, he had come in with his ju'jut'su and between them they had won the battle, but not until the Jap had been hung over a picket fence with a jagged wound in his shoulder.”

    Triple Spies

  • “The space was like an awkward kitchen nook - the kind of jut in which a dining set never fits.”

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  • “Hey, you guys brought Dan on board for urban planning, why not jut co-opt the best local source at Seattle Bubble?”

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  • “They jut from girls 'lids like an underbite, fanning the air in great whips of painted wind, and they form the fluttering basis of a trend spreading faster than conjunctivitis.”

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. butt
  1. projection
  1. shove
  1. push
  1. project

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. change of shape

hyponyms (8)

Words that are more specific

  1. thrust
  1. cantilever
  1. spear
  1. spear up
  1. bag
  1. overhang
  1. push up
  1. bulge

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. outcropping
  2. speed-of-light
  3. outthrust
  4. high-calorie
  1. bloodstone
  2. fob
  3. keychain
  4. reaming
  1. fox terrier
  2. disputant
  3. associates'
  4. hunting dog
  1. derm
  2. ex-censor
  3. four-drawer
  4. squareness
  1. twelve-year
  2. saw-teeth
  3. bird cage
  4. restimulator

rhymes (26)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Hutt
  2. Knut
  3. abut
  4. but
  5. butt
  1. cut
  2. glut
  3. gut
  4. haute
  5. hut
  1. kut
  2. mutt
  3. nut
  4. phut
  5. putt
  1. rebut
  2. rut
  3. shut
  4. shutt
  5. slut
  1. smut
  2. somewhat
  3. strut
  4. tut
  5. uncut
  1. what

reverse dictionary (18)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. overhang
  2. jetting
  3. jet
  1. jetty
  2. embossment
  3. elbow
  1. beetle
  2. bend
  3. bulge
  1. jutty
  2. impend
  3. protrude
  1. jut
  2. project
  3. perk
  1. shoot
  2. set
  3. topple

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