Pronunciations (2)
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/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
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pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ
Adjective
Sticking out.
Usage- not-comparable
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I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.
Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
Usage- not-comparable
Noun
The act by which something is projected.
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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.
A projecting part.
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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 […]
Assumption of qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality; projection.
Adjective
extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
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the jutting limb of a tree
massive projected buttresses
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his protruding ribs
a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck