'Projecting' definitions:
Definition of 'projecting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck" [syn: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)]
Definition of 'Projecting'
From: GCIDE
- Project \Pro*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Projected; p. pr. & vb. n. Projecting.] [Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. [1913 Webster]
- Before his feet herself she did project. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan. [1913 Webster]
- What sit then projecting peace and war? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'projecting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beetle,
- beetle-browed,
- beetling,
- bold,
- eminent,
- emissile,
- excrescent,
- excrescential,
- extruding,
- impendent,
- impending,
- incumbent,
- jutting,
- lowering,
- outstanding,
- overhanging,
- overhung,
- pending,
- prognathous,
- prominent,
- protrudent,
- protruding,
- protrusile,
- protrusive,
- protuberant,
- protuberating,
- salient,
- superincumbent
Words containing 'Projecting'
- Project,
- Projected,
- Projection,
- Projectment,
- Conical projection,
- Counter project,
- Cylindric projection,
- Globular projection,
- Gnomonic projection,
- Homolographic projection,
- Horizontal projection,
- Isometrical projection,
- Manhattan Project,
- Mercator's projection,
- Oblique projection,
- Plane of projection,
- Polar projection,
- Polyconic projection,
- Powder of projection,
- Spherical projection,
- Stereographic projection,
- a projective tariff,
- acoustic projection,
- classroom project,
- conformal projection,
- conic projection,
- homolosine projection,
- housing project,
- map projection,
- mercator projection,
- orthomorphic projection,
- pilot project,
- projection screen,
- projective device,
- projective geometry,
- projective technique,
- projective test,
- research project,
- sinusoidal projection,
- sound projection,
- water project,
- Projection of a point on a plane,
- human genome project,
- Projection of a straight line of a plane,
- equal-area projection,
- sanson-flamsteed projection,
- defense advanced research projects agency,
- equal-area map projection