jut

/dʒət/

/dʒət/

Other forms: jutting; jutted; juts

When something juts, it extends outward. Your nose juts out from your face, just as your ears jut from your head. If you’re feeling determined, you might jut out your chin.

The word jut applies to anything sticking out. Anything that goes beyond the main line of something juts out, like a rock on a coastline or a bump on a log. If you walk into a room with your chin jutting out, people better watch out because you mean business.

Definitions of jut

1. verb

   extend out or project in space
   “His sharp nose jutted out”

   synonyms: jut out, project, protrude, stick out

   types:

   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

   protuberate

   form a rounded prominence
2. noun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
   synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

   types:

   frontal eminence

   either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit

   occipital protuberance

   prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone

   belly

   a part that bulges deeply

   caput

   a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure

   mogul

   a bump on a ski slope

   nub, nubble

   a small lump or protuberance

   snag

   a sharp protuberance

   wart

   any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

   type of:

   projection

   any solid convex shape that juts out from something
3. noun

   the act of projecting out from something
   synonyms: jutting, projection, protrusion

   type of:

   change of shape

   an action that changes the shape of something