projecting

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 3.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Sticking out.

   I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.

2. adjective Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
3. verb present participle and gerund of project
4. noun The act by which something is projected.
5. noun A projecting part.
6. noun Assumption of qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality; projection.

Similar words

protrusive jutting sticking protruding sticking out projection outreach disseminate showing projector

Often followed by

from the into a to beyond above an over

Word family

project projected projection projections projects