convexity

Roget category 250

2. Words relating to space
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#250. Convexity

noun

convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity^†, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion — camber, cahot [U.S.].
thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].
swell.
intumescence — tumour [Brit.], tumor — tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.] — excrescence — hump, hunch, bunch.
boss, embossment, hub, hubble — [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.], knob, elbow, process, apophysis^†, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity^†, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump — sugar loaf etc. (sharpness) 253 — bow — mamelon^† — molar — belly, corporation^†, pot belly, gut [Coll.] — withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.
[convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang] — wen, wheel, papula [Med.], pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle^†, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus^†, fungus, fungosity^†, exostosis^†, bleb, blister, blain^† — boil etc. (disease) 655 — airbubble^†, blob, papule, verruca.
[convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.], titty [Vulg.], boob [Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug, mammilla^†.
[prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.].
peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.
cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves — pilaster.
relief, relievo [It], cameo — bassorilievo^†, mezzorilevo^†, altorivievo — low relief, bas relief [Fr.], high relief.
hill etc. (height) 206 — cape, promontory, mull — forehead, foreland^† — point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur — naze^†, ness.

verb

be prominent etc. adj. — project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.], bunch — jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out — stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up — swell over, hang over, bend over — beetle.
render prominent etc. adj. — raise 307 — emboss, chase.
[become convex] belly out.

adjective

convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting etc. v. — bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy — clavate, clavated^†, claviform — hummocky^†, moutonne^†, mammiliform^† — papulous^†, papilose^† — hemispheric, bulbous — bowed, arched — bold — bellied — tuberous, tuberculous — tumous^† — cornute^†, odontoid^† — lentiform^†, lenticular — gibbous — club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform^†, subclavate^†, torose^†, ventricose^†, verrucose^†.
salient, in relief, raised, repousse — bloated &c., (expanded) 194.

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