Protrude vs Protuberate - What's the difference?
protrude | protuberate |
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 bulge outward, producing a rounded protuberance.
* 1844 , Henry O'Shaughnessy, "Modern Shoemaking", The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette , Vol. 40, No. 1067, p. 42:
(rare) To cause to bulge outward.
As verbs the difference between protrude and protuberate
is that protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out while protuberate is to bulge outward, producing a rounded protuberance.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 * protrusionprotuberate
English
Verb
(protuberat)- With respect to measurement, it would be advisable to take the circumference of the foot by placing the beginning of an inch tape measure a little beyond the great toenail, as the second toe is naturally the longest, passing the measure round the protuberating part of the heel, and bringing it up to the point of the beginning of the measure at the toe.
