Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inventive; enterprising.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Sticking
out . - adjective psychology Giving an
outward appearance , in order to avoid a direct connection or todisguise orinflate the realessence . - verb Present participle of
project .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
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Examples
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But in projecting our lives into a fictional world, we can work out on paper the issues that affect us.
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Still, it does not help us much in projecting the print run ...
Publishers and bloggers Roger Sutton 2009
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If I failed in projecting anything, that is my fame.
Natalie Pace: Tony Curtis: Actor, Artist, Sex Symbol, Father and Savior of Stallions Natalie Pace 2010
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And, still in the long-run --- say, the next two or three decades (the maximum beyond which any half-way reasonable projecting is impossible, what with the speed of change these days and the uncertainties surrounding China's political stability and future) --- China will lucky to be much more advanced technologically than Taiwan or South Korea today.
China Menace?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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By doing something we call "projecting the data," we look at the data from a different angle or in a different light, if you will.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Dr. Gerry Harp -- Deciphering Celestial Signals in a New Way SETI Institute 2011
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If I failed in projecting anything, that is my fame.
Natalie Pace: Tony Curtis: Actor, Artist, Sex Symbol, Father and Savior of Stallions Natalie Pace 2010
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I believe it impossible for any Jew to be ‘anti-semetic’ because of some (any) belief toward other Jews (orthodox, liberal, etc) unless that Jew is self loathing and in projecting hates Jews in general.
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ROTFL Shooters response to some one calling out his projecting is to project.
Matthew Yglesias » Deficit Commission to Accomplish Nothing 2010
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I believe it impossible for any Jew to be ‘anti-semetic’ because of some (any) belief toward other Jews (orthodox, liberal, etc) unless that Jew is self loathing and in projecting hates Jews in general.
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By doing something we call "projecting the data," we look at the data from a different angle or in a different light, if you will.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Dr. Gerry Harp -- Deciphering Celestial Signals in a New Way SETI Institute 2011
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