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 

• JUT OUT (verb)

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)

push up; thrust (push upward)

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)