Projecting
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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 […]"
- 3 Assumption of qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality; projection.
- 1 present participle and gerund of project form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Sticking out. not-comparable
"I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail."
- 2 Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence. not-comparable
- 1 extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary wordnet
Example
More examples"His face was lean and haggard, and his brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones."
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