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Definition of Projecting
1. Adjective. Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary. "A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
Similar to: Protrusive
Definition of Projecting
1. Adjective. Sticking out. ¹
2. Adjective. (psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of project) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Projecting
1. project [v] - See also: project
Lexicographical Neighbors of Projecting
Literary usage of Projecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The projecting bays and bow windows seemed to have such an attraction for the
builders of these country mansions that at Burton Agnes (with a rectangular ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"L, projecting lantern; P, ... or a projecting lantern L (Fig. 2). In this latter
case the experiment was made in a lecture-room; the section was laid in a ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... about two miles wide near the cliff (paii), and projecting about two miles
into the ocean. Around the extreme point this new coast line is from 100 to ..."
4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1892)
"... the occiput.instead of being truncated, or projecting slightly as in the wild
rabbit, is in most lop-eared rabbits pointed, as in, fig. 9,0. ..."
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