Protrude vs Protract - What's the difference?
protrude | protract |
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
To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
*2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic , Mar 2010:
*:Still, form these extraordinary pages you can learn that it's very bad to be burned alive on a windy day, because the breeze will keep flicking the flames away from you and thus protract the process.
To use a protractor.
(surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
To extend; to protrude.
As verbs the difference between protrude and protract
is that protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out while protract is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration.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.
Derived terms
* protrudable * protrudent * protrusible * protrusionprotract
English
Verb
(en verb)- to protract a decision or duty
- (Shakespeare)
- A cat can protract and retract its claws.