project
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.dʒɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɐʊ.d͡ʒekt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔd͡ʒ.ekt/
enpr: prŏʹjĕkt'
enpr: prŏʹjĭkt
ipa: /ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɪkt/
ipa: [-d͡ʒɪ̈kt]
ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.d͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkt
rhymes: -əʊdʒɛkt
Forms: form: projects
Etymology: From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Senses: examples: text: projects of happiness devised by human reason
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation:
text: 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
ref: 1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22:
text: The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
synonyms: word: plan
word: blueprint
word: design
word: plan
word: plot
word: project
word: proposal
word: scheme
glosses: A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
examples: text: Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
text: Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects
ref: 1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul:
text: Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets
ref: 2012, “Money Trees”, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock:
synonyms: council estate
scheme
glosses: An urban, low-income housing building.
examples: text: a man given to projects
synonyms: Tower of Babel
glosses: An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
examples: text: Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
ref: 2014 October 27, Gabriele Marcotti, “Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more”, in ESPN FC:
text: 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.
ref: 2018 September 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, “Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch”, in WNYT:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
synonyms: missile
glosses: A projectile.
synonyms: protuberance
protrusion
glosses: A projection.
Hyponyms: pilot project
subproject
Web project
Derived terms: astral-project
astroproject
bioproject
capstone project
collaborative project management
counterproject
deproject
European project
final year project
ghost project
housing project
interproject
macroproject
megaproject
microproject
midproject
multiproject
new country project
new nation project
projectability
projectable
project accounting
project-based learning
project box
project engineer
project evaluation and review technique
project evaluation review technique
project fire
projectible
projectise
projectization
projectize
project manage
project management
project manager
projectment
project nation
projectome
project-oriented
projectory
projectoscope
reproject
retroject
science project
social project management
subproject