Bulge vs Protrude - What's the difference?
bulge | protrude |
Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
(nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
To stick out from (a surface).
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
* Broome
To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
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To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
* Thomson
As verbs the difference between bulge and protrude
is that bulge is to stick out from (a surface) while protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.As a noun bulge
is something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.bulge
English
(wikipedia bulge)Noun
(en noun)- a bulge in a wall
- a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet
See also
*Verb
(bulg)- 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.
- 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.
- And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
Anagrams
*protrude
English
Verb
(protrud)- Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes .
- (John Locke)
- When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.