Etimology
From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
noun
project (plural projects)
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
(usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
(US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
(obsolete) A projectile.
(obsolete) A projection.
Examples
projects of happiness devised by human reason
Rainbow, […] came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares
The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain. Audio
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Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects
Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets
a man given to projects
Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't.
Related words
hyponyms
pilot project
subproject
Web project
verb
project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)
(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
(transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
(transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume 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.
(geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.
(neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
(transitive) To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
(intransitive) To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
Examples
Synonyms: extend, jut, protrude, stick out
Synonyms: cast, throw
Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
Synonyms: extend, jut, jut out
Synonyms: forecast, foresee, foretell
The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
To form a strict alliance between the cabinets of Paris and London—which meant, that he should influence both,—to induce Charles to marry the loveliest of his nieces, Hortense—thus making a common interest between them, were now the great objects with the Cardinal; and the present visit was of his projecting.
projecting Peace and Warr?
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 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 that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.
to project one's voice
You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to.