protrude
verb [intransitive] (formal)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. 他把上衣挂在凸出牆面的一根釘子上。
Extra ExamplesOne or two chairs protruded into the central aisle. 一兩把椅子突出到中間的過道裏。 The tip of the envelope was just protruding from her bag. 信封的頂端剛好從她的包裏伸出來。
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’.