What's the difference between just and jut?

Just


Definition:

  • (a.) Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
  • (a.) Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference.
  • (a.) Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.
  • (adv.) Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
  • (adv.) Closely; nearly; almost.
  • (adv.) Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
  • (v. i.) To joust.
  • (n.) A joust.

Example Sentences:

Jut


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
  • (v. i.) To butt.
  • (n.) That which projects or juts; a projection.
  • (n.) A shove; a push.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Spielberg asked him to design the mothership for the climax of Close Encounters, the artist drew on a dream from years earlier, in which he had seen an awe-inspiring spacecraft with pipes and stairways jutting out from its underside.
  • (2) When the goal came it was scruffy in the extreme, Ramos jutting out his right boot to turn Nani's cross into his own net.
  • (3) Anyone who has visited Moscow will recognise the Seven Sister high-rises commissioned by Joseph Stalin between 1947 and 1953 that jut out across the city’s skyline.
  • (4) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.
  • (5) His left hand jutted out and that touch was enough to take the ball away from the goal.
  • (6) Nasri's clever little flick left Chris Smalling exposed at right-back and Agüero, twisting his body and jutting out his left foot, managed to apply just the right measure of control to volley in Kolarov's cross.
  • (7) Bony had merely jutted out his left leg after Sterling’s shot came back off the goalkeeper Sergio Rico.
  • (8) The building, whose jutting angles reflected Soviet industrial design, was torn apart by bullets and rockets and became crowded with Afghan drug addicts.
  • (9) One of the best places to experience Pennsylvania’s only shoreline is at Presque Isle state park, a sandy peninsula that juts out into the lake and provides a haven for migrating birds.
  • (10) Now all that remains of the €400,000 centrepiece of the city’s cultural jamboree is a few broken stumps jutting out of the pavement.
  • (11) More dramatically, Code Arkitektur has just completed an ambitious viewing point with the concrete ramp jutting over the vast Utsikten valley on the Gaularfjellet route.
  • (12) The Isle of Thanet is a pancake-flat semi-island jutting into the North Sea and is surrounded by water on three sides.
  • (13) It is dwarfed by a flotilla anchored just offshore, of colossal dredges and barges, hulking metal flatboats with cranes jutting from their decks.
  • (14) It started early on when he jutted out a leg to prevent Ryan Mason opening the scoring and his portfolio of saves included one from the penalty spot when Roberto Soldado had the chance to make it 2-2 just after the hour.
  • (15) Somehow, though, this Carry On, if slightly punchy, seaside resort is as rock-solidly English as a jaw-jutting bloke in a pub who might just grunt "You looking at my caravan?"
  • (16) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
  • (17) Wilshere had been fortunate in the first half to avoid what by modern-day standards could easily have been a red-card offence, taking exception to one of Mike Dean’s decisions, aiming a mouthful of invective at the referee and then responding to Marouane Fellaini’s indignation by jutting his forehead into his opponent’s chin.
  • (18) The presidential palace, a cluster of colonial-era villas perched atop a rocky hill that juts into the Arabian Sea, was Hadi’s last bastion before he fled to Saudi Arabia last month.
  • (19) But it was left to the NT News to tell the real story in juts a few words: Rich Dude Becomes PM: Malcolm Turnbull seizes power in coup against Tony Abbott.
  • (20) MH370: Australia believes it is looking in the right place Read more On Sunday the sonar vehicle attached to the Fugro Discovery was lost after it ran into a mud volcano jutting out from the ocean floor.