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to stick out from a place or a surface 突出；伸出；鼓出 protruding teeth 龅牙 - protrude from something
He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall. 他把上衣挂在凸出墙面的一根钉子上。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesOne or two chairs protruded into the central aisle. 一两个椅子伸入中央通道。 The tip of the envelope was just protruding from her bag. 信封的尖端刚从她的包中伸出。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProtrude is used with these nouns as the subject:- knife
- lip
- stomach
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘thrust something forward or onward’): from Latin protrudere, from pro- ‘forward, out’ + trudere ‘to thrust’.