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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of projecting out from something;
[syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary;
- Example: "the jutting limb of a tree"
- Example: "massive projected buttresses"
- Example: "his protruding ribs"
- Example: "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
[syn: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jutting \Jut"ting\, a. Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jutting adj 1: 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: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)] n 1: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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