Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Project \Pro*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Projected}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Projecting}.] [Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter.]
   1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

            Before his feet herself she did project. --Spenser.

            Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long
            shadows o'er the crystal tide.        --Pope.

   2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to
      devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

            What sit then projecting peace and war? --Milton.

   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.

Source : WordNet®

projecting
     adj : 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" [syn: {jutting}, {projected},
            {protruding}, {sticking(p)}, {sticking out(p)}]