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English Dictionary: projecting by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
projecting
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)
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.
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