Rut vs Jut - What's the difference?
rut | jut |
(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
to be in the annual rut
to have sexual intercourse
To mount or cover during copulation.
A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
A dull routine
To make a furrow
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 a proper noun rut
is , cognate to ruth.As a noun jut is
something that sticks out.As a verb jut is
to stick out.rut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
16th century. Probably from (etyl) route ‘road’Noun
(en noun)- Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut .
Verb
(rutt)Anagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----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