Dictionary

projecting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
• prə-jĕktʹĭng
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Sticking out.
   • I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.
2. (not-comparable) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.

Deriveds

nonprojecting · projectingly · unprojecting

Synonyms

outstanding · jutting · extuberant · prominent · prominent · protruding · bulging · protuberous · promontorial · obtrusive · exserted · protuberant · projectory · protuberous · projecting · outstanding · salient

Translations (17)

hu kiszögellő (sticking out) · sv utstickande (sticking out) · la minax (sticking out) · fi ulkoneva (sticking out) · bg изпъкнал (sticking out) · hu kiálló (sticking out) · fr saillant (sticking out) · la prōminens (sticking out) · ca voladís (sticking out) · nb framspringende (sticking out) · it sporgente (sticking out) · sv framskjutande (sticking out) · fi esiin pistävä (sticking out) · bg издаден (sticking out) · sv utstående (sticking out) · sv utskjutande (sticking out) · fi törröttävä (sticking out)

projecting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
• prə-jĕktʹĭng
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. The act by which something is projected.
   • The movie projector here is, of course, an analog of Soul, and its projectings (abstracting from the movie screen on which they fall) analogs of Soul's ontically generative activities. 2008, Michael F. Wagner, The Enigmatic Reality of Time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today, page 15:
2. A projecting part.
   • The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […] 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20:
3. Assumption of qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality; projection.

Forms

projecting en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
• prə-jĕktʹĭng
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of project
   form of project