Crane vs Jut - What's the difference?
crane | jut |
A large bird of the order Gruiformes'' and the family ''Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying.
A mechanical lifting device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
(nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
To extend (one's neck).
To raise or lower with, or as if with, a .
* Bates
* Massinger
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 nouns the difference between crane and jut
is that crane is a large bird of the order Gruiformes and the family Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying while jut is something that sticks out.As verbs the difference between crane and jut
is that crane is to extend (one's neck) while jut is to stick out.As a proper noun Crane
is {{surname}.crane
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* black crowned crane * black-necked crane * blue crane * common crane * cranefly * demoiselle crane * grey crowned crane * hooded crane * red-crowned crane * sandhill crane * sarus crane * Siberian crane * wattled crane * white-naped crane * whooping craneSee also
* egret * heron * storkVerb
(cran)- (George Eliot)
- What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
- an upstart craned up to the height he has
Anagrams
* ----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