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projecting |
2 definitions found 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]: projecting adj : 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}, {protruding}, {sticking(p)}, {sticking out(p)}]
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