Definition of Projecting

1. Adjective. Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary. "A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"


Definition of Projecting

1. Adjective. Sticking out. ¹

2. Adjective. (psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of project) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Projecting

1. project [v] - See also: project

Lexicographical Neighbors of Projecting

projected
projectest
projecteth
projectile
projectile-vomit
projectile-vomited
projectile-vomiting
projectile-vomits
projectile point
projectile points
projectile vomit
projectile vomited
projectile vomiting
projectile vomits
projectiles
projecting
projectingly
projection
projection screen
projectional
projectionist
projectionists
projectionless
projections
projective
projective device
projective geometry
projective technique
projective test
projectively

Literary usage of Projecting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The projecting bays and bow windows seemed to have such an attraction for the builders of these country mansions that at Burton Agnes (with a rectangular ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"L, projecting lantern; P, ... or a projecting lantern L (Fig. 2). In this latter case the experiment was made in a lecture-room; the section was laid in a ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... about two miles wide near the cliff (paii), and projecting about two miles into the ocean. Around the extreme point this new coast line is from 100 to ..."

4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1892)
"... the occiput.instead of being truncated, or projecting slightly as in the wild rabbit, is in most lop-eared rabbits pointed, as in, fig. 9,0. ..."

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