projecting part (noun)

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• appendage — noun Date: 1647 1. an adjunct to something larger or more important ; appurtenance 2. a usually projecting part of an animal or plant body that is typically smaller and of less functional importance than the main part to which it is attached;… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• corona — noun Etymology: Latin, garland, crown, cornice more at crown Date: 1548 1. the projecting part of a classic cornice 2. a. a usually colored circle often seen around and close to a luminous body (as the sun or moon) caused by diffraction produced… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• ramus — noun (plural rami) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, branch more at ramify Date: 1733 a projecting part, elongated process, or branch: as a. the posterior more or less vertical part on each side of the lower jaw that articulates with the skull b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bed-mould — noun The congeries of mouldings which is under the projecting part of almost every cornice, of which, indeed, it is a part …   Wiktionary

• foot — noun (plural feet fi:t) 1》 the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person or animal stands or walks.     ↘literary manner or speed of walking or running: fleet of foot.     ↘[treated as plural] Brit. infantry; foot soldiers. 2》 …   English new terms dictionary

• lobe — noun 1》 a hanging or projecting part, such as the soft part at the base of the outer ear. 2》 a major division of an organ such as the brain, typically rounded in form. Derivatives lobed adjective lobeless adjective Origin ME: via late L. from Gk… …   English new terms dictionary

• nib — noun 1》 the pointed end part of a pen, which distributes the ink.     ↘a pointed or projecting part of an object. 2》 (nibs) shelled and crushed coffee or cocoa beans. Derivatives nibbed adjective Origin C16 (in the sense beak, nose ): prob. from… …   English new terms dictionary

• ram — noun 1》 an uncastrated male sheep. 2》 a battering ram. 3》 the falling weight of a piledriving machine. 4》 a hydraulic water raising or lifting machine.     ↘the piston of a hydrostatic press. 5》 historical a projecting part of the bow of a… …   English new terms dictionary

• apophysis — noun (plural apophyses) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, from apo + phyein to bring forth more at be Date: 1646 an expanded or projecting part especially of an organism • apophyseal adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• apse — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin apsis, from Latin Date: 1822 1. apsis 1 2. a projecting part of a building (as a church) that is usually semicircular in plan and vaulted …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bastion — noun Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian bastione, augmentative of bastia fortress, derivative from dialect form of bastire to build, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German besten to patch Date: 1562 1. a projecting part of a …   New Collegiate Dictionary