To throw out or forth; cast or shoot forward.To cast forward in the mind; scheme; contrive; devise; plan.In geometry: To throw forward in rays or straight lines, especially from a center; draw such rays through every point of.To throw forward (lines) from a center through every point of the figure said to be projected, and then cut these with a surface upon which the figure is said to be projected.To delineate according to any system of correspondence between the points of a figure and the points of the surface on which the delineation is made.To throw, as it were, from the mind into the objective world; give an objective or real seeming to (something subjective).To set forth; set out.To shoot forward; extend beyond something else; jut; be prominent: as, a cornice or a promontory projects. The rays thrown forward in geometrical projection are said to project in this sense.To form a scheme or project.In alchemy, to make projection — that is, to throw philosopher's stone into a crucible of melted metal, and thus convert the latter into silver, gold, or the philosopher's stone.Synonyms To protrude, bulge (out), stand out.n. That which is projected or devised; a plan; a scheme; a design: as, projects of happiness.n. Synonyms Scheme, Design, etc. See plan.To move about busily or curiously; pry.Projecting; sticking out.