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Projecting

adjective

1.

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary. Synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out. "Massive projected buttresses" , "His protruding ribs" , "A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

Project

verb

(past & past part. projected; pres. part. projecting)

1.

Communicate vividly.

2.

Extend out or project in space. Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out. "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

3.

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another.

4.

Project on a screen.

5.

Cause to be heard.

6.

Draw a projection of.

7.

Make or work out a plan for; devise. Synonyms: contrive, design, plan. "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"

8.

Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.. Synonym: propose. "She proposed a new theory of relativity"

9.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize. "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"

10.

Put or send forth. Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw. "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"

11.

Throw, send, or cast forward. Synonym: send off.

12.

Regard as objective. Synonyms: externalise, externalize.

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"Projecting" Quotes from Famous Books

... far, till the level road, through a turn or two, brought him into a well-wooded tract where bluffs and willow clumps suggested running streams. He left the road and, dismounting, guided his wheel between projecting roots and stumps, down through a winding cow-path which led to a lick below. Here, discarding shoes and stockings he waded the stream, and entered a charming dell where nature had been lavish of adornment. In fact, one might almost have thought time and human ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... Burr seldom interfered in the politics of his own country, yet he continued to feel a deep and abiding interest in the emancipation of South America. He was constantly projecting some measure which in his opinion was calculated to promote this object. He encouraged the friends of freedom in that benighted land. He corresponded with those who were connected with any enterprise favouring the revolution, and consulted and advised with all who ...

— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... teeth, every feline has two pairs of strong fangs which look like big projecting teeth. One pair of fangs is placed on the upper jaw, pointing downward; they are wide apart. The other pair of fangs is placed in the lower jaw, pointing upward; they are not quite so far apart as the fangs of the upper jaw. Why? So that the ...

— The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two • Prince Sarath Ghosh

... position in which she sat Mrs. Easterfield could look upon a second-story window in a projecting wing of the house, and upon this window, which belonged to Olive's room, and which was barely perceptible in the gloom, she now fixed her eyes. The song and the thrumming went on, but no signs of life could be seen in the black square ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... and then try on the breeches—the latter fitting him like a picture, and quite concealing any deficiencies in the matter of his thighs and calves (though, when buckled behind, they left his stomach projecting like a drum). True, the customer remarked that there appeared to be a slight tightness under the right armpit, but the smiling tailor only rejoined that that would cause the waist to fit all the ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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