protrusion
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pro·tru·sion
(prō-tro͞o′zhən)n.
1.
a. The act of protruding.
b. The state of being protruded.
2. Something that protrudes.
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protrusion
(prəˈtruːʒən)n
1. something that protrudes
2. the state or condition of being protruded
3. the act or process of protruding
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pro•tru•sion
(proʊˈtru ʒən, prə-)n.
1. the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
2. something that protrudes; projection.
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Protrusion
See Also: BELONGING, OBVIOUSNESS, VISIBILITY
- Bulges out like bubble gum before popping —Tom Robbins
- Protruding like a warning finger —Beryl Markham
- [A church spire] standing out conspicuously like an indicating finger —MacDonald Harris
- Standing out unnaturally, like a male harpist in an all-girl orchestra —William Safire
- Stand out like a blind man at a tit show —William Diehl
- Stand out like a polar bear in the desert —Andrew Kaplan
- Stand out like a raisin on a coconut cake —Pat Conroy
- Stands out like a blackberry in a pan of milk —American colloquialism, attributed to Vermont
- Stick out like a bug on a butter knife —Loren D. Estleman
- Sticks out like the belly of a pregnant woman —Robert Lowell
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Noun | 1. | protrusion - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, bulge, protuberance, swelling, bump, prominence frontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit occipital protuberance - prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone belly - a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail" caput - a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula" mogul - a bump on a ski slope snag - a sharp protuberance wart - any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
2. | protrusion - the act of projecting out from something change of shape - an action that changes the shape of something |
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protrusion
noun protuberance, swelling, lump, bump, projection, bulge, hump, jut, outgrowth an ugly protrusion on the ankle where the bone had not set properly
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
protrusion
nounA part that protrudes or extends outward:
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
protrusion
n
(= protruding object) → Vorsprung m
(= protruding) (of rock, buttress, teeth etc) → Vorstehen nt; (of forehead, chin) → Vorspringen nt; (of eyes) → Vortreten nt
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