Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of protruding.
- noun The state of being protruded.
- noun Something that protrudes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of protruding or thrusting forth, or the state of being protruded.
- noun That which stands out beyond something adjacent; that which protrudes or projects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.
- noun The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The act of
protruding . - noun uncountable The state of being protruded.
- noun countable Anything that
protrudes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- noun the act of projecting out from something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Just northeast of it is another, larger protrusion, which is Mount Eagle.
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The protrusion was the size of a man's head, and could not be replaced.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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But the omission of all mention both of 'protrusion' and of the 'dog days' makes the Latin almost without meaning.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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A "protrusion" is not the same thing as a herniated disc.
Ask MetaFilter 2009
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There, in the middle of my forehead, was a tiny protrusion, probably about a half inch long.
Horny Erin Zulkoski 2011
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“The piece he stepped on, from an old malt liquor bottle, was as jagged as the French Alps, the round base of the bottle forming a perfect support for the protrusion ... it went into his heel cleanly, cutting firmly into the hard pad, opening a wound that sent him falling sideways.”
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There is a splendid passage where he explains Worm's treasured unicorn horns as the spikes of narwhals – Worm has already worked out what a monster a horse would be which could support such a protrusion.
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Perhaps the most interesting area of the park is known as the Olympic Hill, an obviously unnatural protrusion from the grounds that was actually constructed with the debris from Allied bombings of the city during World War II.
Michael Yarbrough: A Student's Guide to Backpacking: Munich Michael Yarbrough 2011
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The most common and noticeable symptom is a protrusion in the groin or abdominal area.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: His and Her Hernias: Pelvic Pain Culprit Tough to Diagnose in Women M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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The most common and noticeable symptom is a protrusion in the groin or abdominal area.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: His and Her Hernias: Pelvic Pain Culprit Tough to Diagnose in Women M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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