What is the meaning of projecting?

verb

• Communicate vividly.
  • usage: "He projected his feelings"
  • synonyms: project
• Extend out or project in space.
  • usage: "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"
  • synonyms: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project
• Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another.
  • synonyms: project
• Project on a screen.
  • usage: "The images are projected onto the screen"
  • synonyms: project
• Cause to be heard.
  • usage: "His voice projects well"
  • synonyms: project
• Draw a projection of.
  • synonyms: project
• Make or work out a plan for; devise.
  • usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
  • synonyms: plan, project, contrive, design
• Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc..
  • usage: "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"
  • synonyms: project, propose
• Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
  • usage: "I can't see him on horseback"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
  • synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
• Put or send forth.
  • usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
  • synonyms: project, cast, contrive, throw
• Throw, send, or cast forward.
  • usage: "project a missile"
  • synonyms: project, send off
• Regard as objective.
  • synonyms: project, externalize, externalise

adjective

• Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary.
  • usage: "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
  • synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out