project

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒdʒɛkt/, (rare) /ˈpɹəʊdʒɛkt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒdʒɛkt/
• (General American) enPR: prŏjʹĕkt', prŏjʹĭkt IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒˌɛkt/, /ˈpɹɑdʒɪ̈kt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹoʊdʒɛkt/

• Audio (Canada)

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• Rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkt, -ɒdʒəkt, -ɒdʒɪkt, -oʊdʒɛkt
• Hyphenation: proj‧ect

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: prə-jĕktʹ IPA^(key): /pɹəˈdʒɛkt/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (Canada)

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt
• Hyphenation: proj‧ect

Noun

project (plural projects)

1. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Rogers

     projects of happiness devised by human reason

   • (Can we date this quote?) Prescott

     He entered into the project with his customary ardour.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.

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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. (obsolete) A projectile.
5. (obsolete) A projection.
6. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

Hyponyms

• pilot project
• subproject
• Web project

 

Translations

planned endeavor

• Afrikaans: projek
• Albanian: projekt (sq) m
• Arabic: مَشْرُوع‎ (ar) m (mašrūʿ)
• Armenian: նախագիծ (hy) (naxagic)
• Assamese: প্ৰকল্প (prokolpo)
• Azerbaijani: layihə
• Belarusian: прае́кт m (prajékt)
• Bengali: প্রজেক্ট (prôjekṭ)
• Bulgarian: прое́кт (bg) m (proékt)
• Burmese: ပရိုဂျက် (my) (pa.ruigyak)
• Catalan: projecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 計劃 (zh), 计划 (zh) (jìhuà), 方案 (zh) (fāng'àn), 項目 (zh), 项目 (zh) (xiàngmù)

• Czech: projekt (cs) m
• Danish: projekt
• Dutch: project (nl) n
• Esperanto: projekto
• Estonian: projekt
• Finnish: suunnitelma (fi), hanke (fi), projekti (fi)
• French: projet (fr) m
• Friulian: progjet m
• Galician: proxecto (gl) m
• Georgian: გეგმა (gegma), პროექტი (ṗroekṭi)
• German: Projekt (de) n
• Greek: έργο (el) n (érgo)
• Haitian Creole: pwojè
• Hebrew: פְּרוֹיֶקְט‎ m (proyékt), מֵיזָם‎ (he) m (meizám)
• Hindi: परियोजना f (pariyojnā), योजना (hi) f (yojnā), प्रोजैक्ट (projaikṭ)
• Hungarian: terv (hu), projekt (hu)
• Icelandic: áætlun (is) f, verkefni (is) n
• Ido: projeto (io)
• Indonesian: proyek (id)
• Italian: progetto (it) m, studio (it) m, ricerca (it) f
• Japanese: プロジェクト (ja) (purojekuto), 計画 (ja) (けいかく, keikaku)
• Karakalpak: proekt
• Kazakh: жоба (kk) (joba)
• Khmer: គំរោង (kumroong), ផែនការ (km) (phaenkaa)
• Korean: 계획 (ko) (gyehoek) (計劃 (ko)), 프로젝트 (ko) (peurojekteu)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پرۆژه‌‎ (proje)

• Kyrgyz: проект (proyekt), долбоор (ky) (dolboor)
• Lao: ໂຄງການ (khōng kān)
• Latin: inceptum n
• Latvian: projekts m
• Lithuanian: projektas (lt) m
• Macedonian: проект m (proekt)
• Malay: projek, proyek (Indonesia)
• Maltese: proġett m
• Maori: whakatakanga
• Norman: projet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prosjekt (no) n

  Nynorsk: prosjekt n

• Persian: پروژه‎ (fa) (prože), پیش‌افکند‎ (fa) (piš-afkand)
• Polish: projekt (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: projeto (pt) m
• Romanian: proiect (ro) n
• Russian: прое́кт (ru) m (proékt), план (ru) m (plan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀јекат m (Bosnian, Serbian), про̀јект (Croatian)

  Roman: pròjekat m (Bosnian, Serbian), pròjekt (sh) m (Croatian)

• Slovak: projekt m
• Slovene: projekt (sl) m
• Spanish: proyecto (es) m
• Swahili: mradi (sw)
• Swedish: projekt (sv) n
• Tajik: лоиҳа (tg) (loyiha)
• Thai: โครงการ (th) (kroong-gaan)
• Turkish: proje (tr)
• Ukrainian: прое́кт m (proékt)
• Uyghur: لايىھە‎ (layihe)
• Uzbek: proyekt (uz), loyiha (uz)
• Vietnamese: kế hoạch (vi), đề án, dự án (vi)
• Walloon: pordjet (wa) m
• Welsh: prosiect (cy) m
• Yiddish: פּראָיעקט‎ m (proyekt)

urban low-income housing building

• Japanese: 団地 (ja) (だんち, danchi)

• Swahili: miradi (sw)

Verb

project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)

1. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.

   Synonyms: extend, jut, protrude

2. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Spenser

     Before his feet herself she did project.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

3. (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
4. (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.

   The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     projecting peace and war

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:

     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.

Synonyms

• (extend beyond a surface): jut, jut out, protrude, stick out
• (cast image/shadow): cast, throw
• (extend outward): extend, jut, jut out
• (make plans for; forecast): forecast, foresee, foretell,

Translations

to extend beyond a surface

• Finnish: tulla esiin, nousta (fi), kohota (fi)
• Galician: proxectar
• German: ragen (de), hervorragen, herausragen, vorspringen, vorstehen (de), überstehen (de)
• Greek: προβάλλω (el) (provállo), προεξέχω (el) (proexécho), εξέχω (el) (exécho)
• Italian: sportare, sporgere (it)
• Maori: kūrae, koutu, tōhira

• Polish: wystawać (pl) impf
• Russian: выступа́ть (ru) (vystupátʹ)
• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: sträcka ut (sv)
• Ukrainian: вистава́ти impf (vystaváty), виступа́ти impf (vystupáty)

to cast (image/shadow)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投射 (zh) (tóu shè)

• Estonian: kujutama
• Finnish: heijastaa (fi), langeta (fi), projisoida (fi)
• French: projeter (fr)
• German: projizieren (de) (Bild), werfen (de) (Bild, Schatten)
• Hebrew: הקרין‎ (hikrín)

• Hungarian: vetít (hu), vet (hu)
• Maori: whakawhana (to shoot forth), tukuata
• Polish: rzucać (pl) impf, rzucić (pl) pf
• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: projicera (sv)
• Thai: ฉาย (th) (chǎai)

to extend outward

• Finnish: ojentaa (fi)
• German: ausfahren
• Korean: 돌출하다 (ko) (dolchulhada)
• Maori: koutu, tōhira, whakawhana
• Polish: wyciągać (pl) impf, wyciągnąć (pl) pf

• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: projicera (sv)
• Thai: ยื่นออกมา

to make plans for; forecast

• Finnish: ennustaa (fi)
• German: projektieren (de), planen (de); hochrechnen, erwarten (de), vorhersagen (de), voraussagen (de), vorausberechnen
• Greek: προβλέπω (el) (provlépo)
• Hebrew: תכנן‎ (tikhnén), ציפה‎ (tzipá)
• Hungarian: tervez (hu)
• Persian: پیش‌بینی‌ کردن‎ (pishbini kardan)

• Polish: przewidywać (pl) impf, planować (pl) impf
• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: projektera (sv)
• Thai: วางแผน (th) (waang-pɛ̌ɛn)

to present, convey an image

• Finnish: välittää (fi), viestittää
• German: ^{(please verify)} ausstrahlen (de), (sich) ^{(please verify)} präsentieren (de), (sich) ^{(please verify)} darstellen (de)

• Greek: προβάλλω (el) (provállo)
• Thai: เสนอ (th) (sà-nə̌ə)

to assume about others

• Dutch: projecteren (nl)

• Finnish: projisoida (fi)

References

• “project” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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Etymology

Ultimately from Latin prōiectum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proːˈjɛkt/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧ject
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Noun

project n (plural projecten, diminutive projectje n)

1. project (planned endeavor)

Derived terms

• bouwproject
• kunstproject
• projectonderwijs
• projectontwikkelaar

Related terms

• projecteren
• projectie
• projector

Descendants

• Afrikaans: projek