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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒdʒɛkt/, (rare) /ˈpɹəʊdʒɛkt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊdʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹɒdʒɛkt/
- (General American) enPR: prŏjʹĕkt', prŏjʹĭkt IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒˌɛkt/, /ˈpɹɑdʒɪ̈kt/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹoʊdʒɛkt/
Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkt, -ɒdʒəkt, -ɒdʒɪkt, -əʊdʒɛkt
- Hyphenation: proj‧ect
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: prə-jĕktʹ IPA(key): /pɹəˈdʒɛkt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
- Hyphenation: pro‧ject
Noun[edit]
project (plural projects)
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
- projects of happiness devised by human reason
- 1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22
- 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
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
Audio (US) (file)
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
- (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
- Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
- 1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul:
- Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects
- 2012, “Money Trees”, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock:
- Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets
- (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- a man given to projects
- (US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
- 2014 Oct 27, Gabriele Marcotti, "Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more", ESPN FC:
- Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
- 2018 Sep 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, "Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch", WNYT:
- 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.
- 2014 Oct 27, Gabriele Marcotti, "Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more", ESPN FC:
- (obsolete) A projectile.
- (obsolete) A projection.
Hyponyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
planned endeavor
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urban low-income housing building — See also translations at social housing
Verb[edit]
project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)
- (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
- (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto I, stanza 45:
- Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
- 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:
- Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 172:
- 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.
- The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- projecting Peace and Warr?
- (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.
- 1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure:
- (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
- (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
- (geometry) 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.
- To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.
- 2016 — Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney, Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Abrams Books, New York City, →ISBN;
- You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to.
- 2016 — Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney, Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Abrams Books, New York City, →ISBN;
Translations[edit]
to extend beyond a surface
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to cast (image, shadow)
to extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward
to make plans for; forecast
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to present, convey an image
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to assume about others
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Further reading[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “project”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Latin prōiectum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
project n (plural projecten, diminutive projectje n)
- project (planned endeavor)
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