Synonyms:
jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking_out(p)
Meaning: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
Usage examples
I bent over a projecting rock and gazed down.
Great seams of coal, too, were seen projecting from the banks of the Saskatchewan.
An old-fashioned squirrel rifle lay on hooks projecting from the wall, but there was no other sign of a weapon.
The bookcase proper rested upon this projecting cupboard, thus raising the books above the level of the furniture.
While this contest was going on, Hannibal advanced his centre so as to form a salient angle projecting in front of his line.
This platform is screened from the street by dark blue cotton curtains or awnings hung from the low projecting eaves of the heavy roof.
To the faces of these rolls were bolted a series of heavy, chilled-iron plates containing a number of projecting knobs two inches high.
It was arranged on the plan of many college libraries, with tall, projecting bookcases forming deep recesses of dusty silence, fit graves for the old hates of forgotten controversy, the dead passions of forgotten lives.
The singing-seats, projecting from the central portion of the gallery, furnished me with another hebdomadal study, in large gilt letters of antique awkwardness, which so impressed themselves on my mind that I see them now.
If we did not see the silky remnants of the two vestibules projecting and feel a certain resistance when separating the parts of the bundle, we might take the thing for a casual accumulation, the work of the rain and the wind.