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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Project \Pro*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Projected}; p. pr &
vb n. {Projecting}.] [Cf. OF projecter, F. projeter.]
1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Before his feet herself she did project. --Spenser.
Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long
shadows o'er the crystal tide. --Pope.
2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to
devise; to scheme; as to project a plan
What sit then projecting peace and war? --Milton.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
projected
adj 1: planned for the future; "the first volume of a proposed
series" [syn: {proposed}]
2: 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}, {projecting}, {protruding},
{sticking(p)}, {sticking out(p)}]
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