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Uplifted vs Protrude - What's the difference?

uplifted | protrude |

As verbs the difference between uplifted and protrude

is that uplifted is (uplift) while protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.

uplifted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (uplift)

    • uplift

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of being uplifted.
  • (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
  • (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.

    • Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms

    protrude

    English

    Verb

    (protrud)
  • To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
  • *
    • 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