Verb

(en verb)

To extend beyond a surface.

To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

* Spenser

Before his feet herself she did project .

* Alexander Pope

Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

To make plans for; to forecast.

The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.

* Milton

projecting peace and war

(reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

* 1946 , Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukeee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure :

It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.

(transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume wrongly qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

Verb

(es)

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.

* 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323

There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears

(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.

* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses

And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.

To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.

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Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V

With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.

To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.

* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)

All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .

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(often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.

* 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface

In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths

* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:

My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.