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Definition: Protruding |
ProtrudingAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "protruding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ProtrudingSynonyms: jutting (adj), projected (adj), projecting (adj), sticking out(p) (adj), sticking(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sorry for protruding, Mr. Wiggins, but you're wanted on the phone (Miss Pacific Fleet; writing credit: Peter Milne) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Campbell Ice Tongue protruding into the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Tusklike mandibles protruding from the screwworm larva's mouth rasp the flesh of living warm-blooded animals. A wound may contain hundreds of such larvae. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by John Kucharski.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Airplane wing" by Nick Robinson Commentary: "The protruding wing of an airplane." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al pointed to a big nail protruding from the flat casing |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This is known as a protruding hemorrhoid. (references) | |
Eliminating straining also helps prevent the hemorrhoids from protruding. (references) | ||
If the protruding intestine becomes twisted or traps stool, part of the intestine might need to be removed. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Protruding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.63% of the time. "Protruding" is used about 147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 81.63% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.69% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "protruding": protruding ears ♦ protruding eye ♦ protruding eyes ♦ protruding forehead. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
protruding disc | 21 | protruding vein | 4 |
nipples protruding | 17 | belly protruding | 3 |
protruding disk | 13 | eye protruding | 3 |
protruding | 8 | protruding tongue | 3 |
protruding stomach | 6 | protruding abdomen | 2 |
protruding ear | 6 | disc herniated protruding | 2 |
protruding hemorrhoids | 6 | cosmetic ear protruding surgery | 2 |
nipple protruding | 6 | cervical disc protruding | 2 |
clitoris protruding | 6 | jaw protruding | 2 |
labia protruding | 5 | protruding rib | 2 |
eyes protruding | 5 | intestine protruding | 2 |
belly button protruding | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "protruding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i spikatur (bold, clean-cut, clear-cut, conspicuous, pointed, prominent, protrusive, salient), i kërcyer (galloping, protrusive, protuberant, salient), i dalë (knobby, outstanding, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, salient). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفندر, ناتئ (beetle, bunchy, cantilever, eminent, outstanding, projecting, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, salient), ناشز (discordant, dissonant, false, prominent), جاحظ (popeyed), بارز (beetle, conspicuous, distinct, distinguished, duel, eminent, featured, fence, great, in the first flight, lofty, memorable, monumental, noble, notable, noticeable, outstanding, pointed, profile, prognathous, projecting, prominent, protuberant, remarkable, salient, signal, striking, uncommon). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изпъкнал (bossy, bulging, bunchy, convex, eminent, goggle, outstanding, projecting, projective, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, salient, swelling), изплезен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 推出 (Protrude, Protruded). (various references) | |
Czech | odstávající uši (protruding ears). (various references) | |
Danish | prominerende (prominent), prominent (prominent). (various references) | |
Dutch | prominent (prominent), prominens (prominent). (various references) | |
Finnish | esiinpistävä (projecting). (various references) | |
French | protubérant (protuberant), proéminent (prominent), saillant (projecting, prominent, pronounce), qui avance, globuleux. (various references) | |
German | herausstreckend. (various references) | |
Greek | προεξέχων (prominent, protrusive, salient). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בולט (noticeable, outstanding, prominent, protrusive, salient, signal, staring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kinyúló (pendent, projecting), kiálló (off-centred, pendent, projecting, salient). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terulur (projecting, stretched out), belodok, bancut. (various references) | |
Italian | prominente (outstanding, prominent, protrusive), sporgente (bulging, jutting, outstanding, prominent, protrudent, protrusive, protuberant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 突き出た (projecting). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つきでた (projecting). (various references) | |
Korean | 돌기. (various references) | |
Manx | seiyagh (goring, propelling, propensity, propulsive, pushing, stabbing), deamagh (prominent, prominent as nose, protuberant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otrudingpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saliente (beetle, beetling, goggle, outstanding, prominent, protuberant, salient, tumid). (various references) | |
Romanian | ochi bulbucaţi (protruding eyes), frunte bombatã (protruding forehead). (various references) | |
Russian | высунутый наружу, выдающийся (brilliant, distinguished, drop-dead, egregious, eminent, foremost, high-profile, man of distinction, man of mark, man of note, notable, noted, outstanding, pre-eminencent, pre-eminent, prognathous, prominent, remarkable, salient), навыкат. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji viri, isturen (advanced, beetle, beetling), isplažen. (various references) | |
Spanish | prominente (prominent), sobresaliente (banner, conspicuous, distinction, exuberant, leaded, leading, outstanding, palmary, protrusive, salient, substitute, topflight), saltón (prominent, protuberant), saliente (excrescent, jut, ledge, outgoing, projecting, projection, prominent, protrusion, protrusive, proud, retiring, salient, Scarcement, setoff, shelf), herniado, hacia afuera. (various references) | |
Swedish | utstående (blubber, protrusive, protuberant), framskjutande (projecting, prominent, protrusion, protrusive, protuberant, salient). (various references) | |
Turkish | pörtlek, fırlak (prominent, protrusive), dışa çıkık (protrusive, protuberant), çıkıntılı (denticulated, obtrusive, protrusive, protuberant, ribbed, salient). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gьberзek (bulging, convex). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що видається (protrusive), висунутий (bossed, protrusive). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thò ra (protrusive), nhô ra (beetling, projecting, protrusive), lồi ra (bulging, bulgy, emergent, projecting, protrusive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Protruding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Portquin, protgruding, protuding, rotuding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "protruding" (pronounced prōtruw"ding) |
| 6 | -t r uw" d i ng | extruding, intruding. |
| 5 | -r uw" d i ng | brooding. |
| 4 | -uw" d i ng | alluding, colluding, concluding, deluding, denuding, eluding, excluding, feuding, including, precluding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, demanding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, intending, interceding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-o-p-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: trouping. | |
-3 letters: ingroup, outgrin, outring, porting, pouring, pouting, prurigo, purring, rouping, routing, touring. | |
-4 letters: diuron, doping, doting, duping, during, durion, ground, guidon, inpour, irrupt, opting, outing, pignut, pigout, pongid, poring, pundit, putrid, rigour, roping, rotund, toping, torpid, torrid, trigon, tripod, tropin, truing, turgid, turgor, turnip, ungird, ungirt, unipod, untrod, upgird, upgirt, uptorn. | |
-5 letters: dingo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-o-p-r-r-t-u" | |
+4 letters: outreproducing, underreporting. | |
+5 letters: daguerreotyping. | |
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