What does jut mean?
Jut means (intransitive) To stick out..
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/d͡ʒʌt/ · verb
(intransitive) To stick out..
the jutting part of a building
1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport is one of the trickiest in the world; planes approach between steep hills and over the rooftops of Kowloon City to swoop onto a strip of land that juts out into the harbor.
...enormous Chesterfield packs aslant on the scoreboards, a couple of cigarettes jutting from each.
Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay.
1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden the jutting steer
1999, Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition). 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.
Use jut when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jut means (intransitive) To stick out..
Common synonyms include protrude, outcrop, protrusion, bulge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
the jutting part of a building
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