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Jut vs Bulge - What's the difference?

jut | bulge |

As nouns the difference between jut and bulge

is that jut is something that sticks out while bulge is a type of helmet.

As a verb jut

is to stick out.

jut

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • something that sticks out
  • * 1999 , Stardust , , 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.

    Verb

    (jutt)
  • to stick out
    • the jutting part of a building
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1997 , author=(Don DeLillo) , chapter=1 , title=Underworld , passage=...enormous Chesterfield packs aslant on the scoreboards, a couple of cigarettes jutting from each.}}
  • (obsolete) To butt.
  • * Mason
    • the jutting steer

    bulge

    English

    (wikipedia bulge)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
    • a bulge in a wall
    a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet
  • The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  • (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.

    • See also

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    Verb

    (bulg)
  • To stick out from (a surface).
    • The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
    He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The wind actually stirred the cloth on the chest of drawers, and let in a little light, so that the sharp edge of the chest of drawers was visible, running straight up, until a white shape bulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.
  • To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
  • * Broome
    • And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

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