project
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-jĕktʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒekt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: projects
form: projecting
form: projected
form: projected
Etymology: From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Senses: synonyms: extend
jut
protrude
stick out
glosses: To extend beyond a surface.
examples: text: Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 45:
text: Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
ref: 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: cast
word: throw
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
synonyms: extend
jut
jut out
glosses: To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
examples: text: The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
text: 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.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 172:
text: projecting Peace and Warr?
ref: 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:
synonyms: forecast
foresee
foretell
glosses: To make plans for; to forecast.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure:
glosses: To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
examples: text: to project one's voice
glosses: To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
examples: text: You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to.
ref: 2016, Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney, Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Abrams Books, New York City, →ISBN:
glosses: To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
Derived terms: word: misproject
Related terms: extrapolate