As verbs the difference between distend and protrude
is that
distend is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell while
protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
distend English
Verb
( en verb)
To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
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(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
* Milton
- But say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven / Distended as the brow of God appeased?
To cause to swell.
(biology) To cause gravidity.
Derived terms
* distensible
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protrude English
Verb
( protrud)
To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
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- 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 .
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
- (John Locke)
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
* Thomson
- When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
Derived terms
* protrudable
* protrudent
* protrusible
* protrusion
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