name
Meaning 1
Dated form of Jat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
jut
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/d͡ʒʌt/
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Northern-England: /d͡ʒʊt/
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rhymes with -ʌt
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CMU ARPABET: JH AH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something that sticks out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1999, Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition). The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: outcrop, protrusion
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To stick out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- the jutting part of a building
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: protrude
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To butt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden the jutting steer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the act of projecting out from something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: protrusion, projection, jutting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of shape
noun
Meaning 6
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
- the hump of a camel
- he stood on the rocky prominence
- the occipital protuberance was well developed
- the bony excrescence between its horns
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: projection
Narrower terms: frontal eminence, occipital protuberance, belly, caput, mogul, nub, nubble, snag, wart
verb
Meaning 7
extend out or project in space
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- His sharp nose jutted out
- A single rock sticks out from the cliff
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stick out, protrude, jut out, project
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: overhang, thrust, push up, spear, spear up, bulge, bag, cantilever
History
Etymology
From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at English jet.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: издатина (izdatina) — something that sticks out
- Chinese Mandarin: 凸起 (tūqǐ) — something that sticks out
- Czech: výčnělek — something that sticks out
- Czech: výstupek — something that sticks out
- Czech: výběžek — something that sticks out
- Hungarian: kiszögellés — something that sticks out
- Japanese: 突起 (tokki) — something that sticks out
- Polish: wypustka — something that sticks out
- Russian: вы́ступ (výstup) — something that sticks out
- Albanian: qit — to stick out
- Bulgarian: стърча (stǎrča) — to stick out
- Bulgarian: издавам се (izdavam se) — to stick out
- Czech: vyčnívat — to stick out
- Czech: čnít — to stick out
- Czech: trčet — to stick out
- Czech: vybíhat — to stick out
- Finnish: törröttää — to stick out
- French: saillir — to stick out
- Galician: sobresaír — to stick out
- Georgian: გამოშვერა (gamošvera) — to stick out
- Georgian: წამოწევა (c̣amoc̣eva) — to stick out
- Georgian: გამოწევა (gamoc̣eva) — to stick out
- German: herausragen — to stick out
- German: hervorragen — to stick out
- Hungarian: kiáll — to stick out
- Hungarian: kiszögell — to stick out
- Hungarian: kiugrik — to stick out
- Italian: sporgere — to stick out
- Latin: prōmineō — to stick out
- Māori: kōture — to stick out
- Māori: koure — to stick out
- Māori: kohuki — to stick out
- Polish: wystawać — to stick out
- Portuguese: sobressair — to stick out
- Russian: выступа́ть (vystupátʹ) — to stick out
- Russian: вы́ступить (výstupitʹ) — to stick out
- Russian: торча́ть (torčátʹ) — to stick out
- Russian: выпира́ть (vypirátʹ) — to stick out
- Spanish: sobresalir — to stick out
- Ukrainian: вистава́ти (vystaváty) — to stick out
- Ukrainian: виступа́ти (vystupáty) — to stick out
- ǃXóõ: dthàã tûu — to stick out