projected
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (1)
- extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary“the jutting limb of a tree”“massive projected buttresses”“his protruding ribs”“a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck”Synonyms: juttingprojectingprotrudingrelievedsticking(p)sticking out(p)
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Project \Pro*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Projected; p. pr. & vb. n. Projecting.] [Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter.] [1913 Webster]
1.To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. [1913 Webster]
Before his feet herself she did project.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
2.To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan. [1913 Webster]
What sit then projecting peace and war?— Milton.[1913 Webster]
3.(Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4. [1913 Webster]