projecting
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
projecting (not comparable)
- Sticking out.
- I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.
- (psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
- present participle of project#English|project
projecting (plural projectings)
- The act by which something is projected.
- 2008, Michael F. Wagner, The Enigmatic Reality of Time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today (page 15)
- 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)
- A projecting part.
- 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (page 20)
- 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)
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