English
project
Etymology

From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō ("throw forth, extend; expel").

Pronunciation
Noun
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/, /ˈpɹəʊ.dʒɛkt/
  • (Australia) IPA: /ˈpɹɐʊ.d͡ʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹɔd͡ʒ.ɛkt/
  • (General American) enPR: prŏʹjĕkt', prŏʹjĭkt IPA: /ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɪkt/, [-d͡ʒɪ̈kt]
  • (Canada) IPA: /ˈpɹɒ.d͡ʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹoʊ.d͡ʒɛkt/
Verb
  • (RP, America, Canada) enPR: prə-jĕktʹ IPA: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Noun

project (plural projects)

  1. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
    • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation:
      projects of happiness devised by human reason
    • 1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22:
      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
    • 2019, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
      The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
  2. (usually, in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
    Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
  3. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
    a man given to projects
  4. (US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
  5. (obsolete) A projectile.
  6. (obsolete) A projection.
Translations Verb

project (projects, present participle projecting; simple past and past participle projected)

  1. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
    Synonyms: extend, jut, protrude, stick out
  2. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
    Synonyms: cast, throw
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 45:
      Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
    • 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC ↗:
      Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
  3. (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
    Synonyms: extend, jut, jut out
  4. (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
    Synonyms: forecast, foresee, foretell
    The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 172 ↗:
      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.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
      projecting Peace and Warr?
  5. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
    • 1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure‎[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19461207&id=NS0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8iMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4499,3742545]:
      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.
  6. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
  7. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
  8. (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.
  9. (neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
  10. (transitive) To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
    to project one's voice
  11. (intransitive) To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
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