project
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin prōiectum (“projection”), from prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Noun:
- Verb:
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Noun[edit]
project (plural projects)
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- (chiefly in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
- Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
- (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- a man given to projects
- (obsolete) A projectile.
- (obsolete) A projection.
- (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
planned endeavor
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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.
- 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.
- Spenser
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
- Milton
- projecting peace and war
- (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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (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[edit]
to extend beyond a surface
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to cast (image/shadow)
to extend 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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References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
project n (plural projecten, diminutive projectje n)
- project (planned endeavor)
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