projecting vs sticking out

projecting

adj
  • Sticking out. 

  • Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence. 

noun
  • A projecting part. 

  • The act by which something is projected. 

sticking out

How often have the words projecting and sticking out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )