Already vs Jut - What's the difference?
already | jut |
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
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, slipping then my cloaths off, I crept under the bed-cloaths, where I found the young stripling already nestled, and the touch of his warm flesh rather pleas'd than alarm'd me.}}
* (Arthur Conan Doyle)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= So soon.
(US) Influenced by (etyl) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
something that sticks out
* 1999 , Stardust , , page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition).
to stick out
* Sir Thomas Browne
* {{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
As an adverb already
is prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.As a noun jut is
something that sticks out.As a verb jut is
to stick out.already
English
Adverb
(-)- It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
Usage notes
Already may be used with the present perfect (I have already done that''), the past perfect (''I had already done it by then''), the future perfect (''When you arrive, the business will already have been completed'') or the simple future (''When you arrive, the business will already be complete ).See also
* yetStatistics
*jut
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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)- the jutting part of a building
- It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
- the jutting steer