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Projection vs Design - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between projection and design

is that projection is something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out while design is design (creative profession or art).

projection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  • The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.
  • The action of projecting]] or throwing or [[propel, propelling something.
  • The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
  • A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
  • (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
  • (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  • (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
  • (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  • (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
  • (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  • (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
  • Synonyms

    * (something which sticks out) protuberance

    Derived terms

    * * astral projection * axonometric projection * dimetric projection * graphical projection * oblique projection * orthographic projection * parallel projection * perspective projection * projective * isometric projection * trimetric projection

    design

    English

    (wikipedia design)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
  • A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
  • The composition of a work of art.
  • Intention or plot.
  • * M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:
  • I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
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  • The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
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  • The art of designing
  • Danish furniture design is world-famous.

    Derived terms

    * architectural design * design by contract * design pattern * hardware design * software design

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete)  To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
  • he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
  • * Dryden
  • He was designed to the study of the law.
  • To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
    Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.
  • (obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .

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