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• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊd͡ʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒɛkt/
  • (US): IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒɛkt/
  • (Canada): IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒɛk̚t/

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• Verb:
  • (US, Received Pronunciation, Canada): IPA^(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Etymology 1

Noun from Latin prōiectum (“projection”), from prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).

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.

2. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

   a man given to projects

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

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

Translations

planned endeavor

• Afrikaans: projek
• Arabic: مشروع m (mašrūʿ)
• Belarusian: праект m (prajékt)
• Bengali: প্রজেক্ট (prôjekţ)
• Bulgarian: проект (bg) m (proékt)
• 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
• Finnish: suunnitelma (fi), hanke (fi), projekti (fi)
• French: projet (fr) m
• Galician: proxecto (gl) m
• German: Projekt (de) n
• Haitian Creole: pwojè
• Hebrew: פרויקט m (proyékt), מיזם m (meizám)
• Hungarian: terv (hu), projekt (hu)
• 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)
• Jèrriais: projet m

• Karakalpak: proekt
• Korean: 계획 (ko) (gyehoek) (計劃 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پرۆژه‌

• Latin: inceptum n
• Latvian: projekts m
• Malay: projek
• Maltese: proġett m
• Norwegian: prosjekt n
• Persian: پروژه (fa) (prože), پیش‌افکند (fa) (piš-afkand)
• Polish: projekt (pl) m
• Portuguese: projeto (pt) m
• Romanian: proiect (ro) n
• Russian: план (ru) m (plan), проект (ru) m (proɛ́kt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пројекат m (Bosnian, Serbian), пројект (Croatian)

  Roman: projekat m (Bosnian, Serbian), projekt (sh) m (Croatian)

• Spanish: proyecto (es) m
• Swahili: mradi (sw)
• Swedish: projekt (sv) n
• Turkish: proje (tr)
• Ukrainian: проект m (proékt)
• Vietnamese: kế hoạch (vi), đề án
• Welsh: prosiect (cy) m

urban low-income housing building

• Japanese: 団地 (ja) (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.
2. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
   • Spenser

     Before his feet herself she did project.

   • 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.

   • 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 Milwaukeee 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 wrongly 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

extend beyond a surface

• German: ragen, hervorragen, herausragen, vorspringen, vorstehen, überstehen
• Italian: sportare, sporgere (it)
• Maori: kūrae, koutu
• Russian: выступать (ru) (vystupatʹ)

• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: sträcka ut (sv)

cast (image/shadow)

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

• Hungarian: vetít (hu), vet (hu)
• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: projicera (sv)

extend outward

• German: ausfahren
• Maori: koutu
• Spanish: proyectar (es)

• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: projicera (sv)

make plans for; forecast

• German: projektieren (de), planen (de); hochrechnen, erwarten (de), vorhersagen, voraussagen, vorausberechnen
• Hebrew: תכנן (tikhnén), ציפה (tzipá)
• Hungarian: tervez (hu)

• Persian: پیش‌بینی‌ کردن (pishbini kardan)
• Spanish: proyectar (es)
• Swahili: miradi (sw)
• Swedish: projektera (sv)

present, convey an image

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

wrongly assume about others

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989

Etymology 2

Shortening of housing project

Noun

project (plural projects)

1. (usually plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.

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Noun

project n (plural projecten, diminutive projectje n)

1. project (planned endeavo(u)r)