different between projecting vs projector

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 […]

English

Alternative forms

• projectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project +? -or.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p???d??kt?/

• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

projector (plural projectors)

1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. [from 16th c.]
   • 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:

     [A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […].

2. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. [from 19th c.]
3. (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
   • 1982, The Gestalt Journal (volume 5, page 44)

     Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […]

4. (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English projector or German Projektor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro??j?k.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pro?jec?tor
• Rhymes: -?kt?r

Noun

projector m (plural projectoren or projectors, diminutive projectortje n)

1. A projector (projection device).

Derived terms

• diaprojector

Portuguese

Noun

projector m (plural projectores)

1. Alternative form of projetor