stick out
1. extend out or project in space (Freq. 1)
- His sharp nose jutted out
- A single rock sticks out from the cliff
• Syn:
protrude, jut out, jut, project
• Derivationally related forms:
projection (for: project), jutting (for: jut), protrusible (for: protrude), protrusive (for: protrude), protrusion (for: protrude)
• Hyponyms:
overhang, thrust, push up, spear, spear up,
bulge, bag, cantilever
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
2. be highly noticeable
• Syn:
leap out, jump out, jump, stand out
• Hypernyms:
look, appear, seem
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- It ----s that CLAUSE
3. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- I cannot bear his constant criticism
- The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
- he learned to tolerate the heat
- She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
• Syn:
digest, endure, stomach, bear, stand,
tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
• Derivationally related forms:
sufferance (for: suffer), abidance (for: abide), tolerant (for: tolerate), toleration (for: tolerate), tolerance (for: tolerate), bearable (for: bear), endurance (for: endure)
• Hypernyms:
permit, allow, let, countenance
• Hyponyms:
accept, live with, swallow, stand for, hold still for,
bear up, take lying down, take a joke, sit out, pay
• Verb Group:
suffer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s PP (for: put up)
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