3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

projected

adjective

1: planned for the future; "the first volume of a proposed series" [syn: {proposed}]

2: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck" [syn: {jutting}, {projecting}, {protruding}, {sticking(p)}, {sticking out(p)}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Project \Pro*ject"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Projected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Projecting}.] [Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter.]

1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

Before his feet herself she did project. --Spenser.

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

2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

What sit then projecting peace and war? --Milton.

3. (Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See {Projection}, 4.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "projected": advised, aimed, aimed at, approaching, arranged, blueprinted, calculated, charted, coming, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, deliberate, deliberated, designed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devised, emergent, envisaged, envisioned, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, figured, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in the works, intended, intentional, knowing, later, meant, meditated, methodized, nearing, of design, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted, predicted, probable, prophesied, proposed, prospective, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rationalized, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic, strategic, studied, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, teleological, to come, to-be, ultimate, voluntary, willful, witting, worked out

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