different between developing vs projecting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v?l?p??/
• Hyphenation: de?vel?op?ing

Verb

developing

1. Present participle and gerund of develop.

Adjective

developing

1. In the process of development.

   a developing foetus

2. Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.

Derived terms

• developing country

Translations

Noun

developing (plural developings)

1. A process of development.
   • 1854, John Campbell (editor), The Christian witness and church members' magazine

     In the developings of an inscrutable Providence, the kingdoms of the earth have become embroiled, and who can say where the complication will terminate?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?-j?kt??ng IPA^(key): /p???d???kt??/
• Hyphenation: pro?ject?ing

Adjective

projecting (not comparable)

1. Sticking out.

   I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.

2. (psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.

Translations

Verb

projecting

1. present participle of project

Noun

projecting (plural projectings)

1. The act by which something is projected.
   • 2008, Michael F. Wagner, The Enigmatic Reality of Time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today (page 15)

     The movie projector here is, of course, an analog of Soul, and its projectings (abstracting from the movie screen on which they fall) analogs of Soul's ontically generative activities.

2. A projecting part.
   • 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (page 20)

     The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]