What part of speech is projecting?

Projecting can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. projecting is a verb, gerund of project (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does projecting mean?

Definitions

Adjective

projecting - 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"

Verb

project - present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"
project - project on a screen; "The images are projected onto the screen"
project - put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
project - regard as objective
project - cause to be heard; "His voice projects well"
project - communicate vividly; "He projected his feelings"
project - transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
project - throw, send, or cast forward; "project a missile"
project - draw a projection of
project - imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
project - make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
project - extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

Examples of projecting

#   Sentence  
1. verb His face was lean and haggard, and his brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones.
2. verb He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache.
3. verb Today, the largest uncertainty in projecting future climate conditions is the level of greenhouse gas emissions going forward. Future global greenhouse gas emissions levels and resulting impacts depend on economic, political, and demographic factors that can be difficult to predict with confidence far into the future.
4. verb We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.
5. verb I rubbed my eyes to see the image projecting in front of me.
6. verb Project a missile.
7. verb What you project will always come back to either reward or haunt you.
8. verb We tried to project our analysis into the future.
9. verb This hall isn't a movie theater, but you can project a movie in here.
10. verb He would always project his own suppositions as undeniable facts.
11. verb Some people buy eclipse glasses that filter out all harmful ultraviolet and infrared light, as well as the majority of intense visible light. The safest way to view an eclipse, however, is to project its image through a pinhole made in a card onto another piece of white card.
12. verb To foresee is to project in the future what one has perceived in the past.
13. verb Climate models representing our understanding of historical and current climate conditions are often used to project how our world will change under future conditions.
14. verb Scientists project the Antarctic ozone to recover back to its 1980 level around 2070.
15. verb Algeria needs to project its power abroad.
Sentence  
verb
His face was lean and haggard, and his brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones.
He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache.
Today, the largest uncertainty in projecting future climate conditions is the level of greenhouse gas emissions going forward. Future global greenhouse gas emissions levels and resulting impacts depend on economic, political, and demographic factors that can be difficult to predict with confidence far into the future.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.
I rubbed my eyes to see the image projecting in front of me.
Project a missile.
What you project will always come back to either reward or haunt you.
We tried to project our analysis into the future.
This hall isn't a movie theater, but you can project a movie in here.
He would always project his own suppositions as undeniable facts.
Some people buy eclipse glasses that filter out all harmful ultraviolet and infrared light, as well as the majority of intense visible light. The safest way to view an eclipse, however, is to project its image through a pinhole made in a card onto another piece of white card.
To foresee is to project in the future what one has perceived in the past.
Climate models representing our understanding of historical and current climate conditions are often used to project how our world will change under future conditions.
Scientists project the Antarctic ozone to recover back to its 1980 level around 2070.
Algeria needs to project its power abroad.

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