Jut vs Extend - What's the difference?
jut | extend |
something that sticks out
* 1999 , Stardust , , page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition).
to stick out
* Sir Thomas Browne
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(obsolete) To butt.
* Mason
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
Extend is a synonym of jut.
In intransitive terms the difference between jut and extend
is that jut is to stick out while extend is to possess a certain extent.As a noun jut
is something that sticks out.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
extend
English
Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors
