project
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ), прики́дка (prikídka) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)); набро́сок (nabrósok) (akin to броса́ть (brosátʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: projects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: projects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: projecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: projected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: projected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: An urban, low-income housing building.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural-normally
examples: 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
gloss: An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: a man given to projects
gloss: A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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.
gloss: A projectile.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A projection.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To extend beyond a surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
gloss: To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make plans for; to forecast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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?
gloss: To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
pos: verb
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
pos: verb
gloss: To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to project one's voice
gloss: To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to.
gloss: To extend to reach a point.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: When a word occurs only in Indo-European languages of northern or western Europe, for instance, projecting that word back to Proto-Indo-European is considered dubious.
Related words: extrapolate
Derived words: 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
misproject
projective
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