project

Plural: projects

Noun

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
• a planned undertaking
• A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
• An urban, low-income housing building.
• An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
• A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
• A projectile.
• A projection.

Verb

Verb Forms: projected, projecting, projects

• To extend outward; to forecast or plan.
• communicate vividly
  • "He projected his feelings"
• extend out or project in space
• transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
• project on a screen
  • "The images are projected onto the screen"
• cause to be heard
  • "His voice projects well"
• draw a projection of
• make or work out a plan for; devise
• present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
• put or send forth
• throw, send, or cast forward
  • "project a missile"
• regard as objective
• To extend beyond a surface.
• To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
• To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
• To make plans for; to forecast.
• To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
• To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
• To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
• 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.
• (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
• To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
• To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.

Examples

• a man given to projects
• His final word choice was a clever way to project onto two premium squares.
• Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
• The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
• to project one's voice

Synonyms

cast, contrive, design, envision, externalise, externalize, fancy, figure, image, jut, jut out, labor, picture, plan, projection, propose, protrude, see, send off, stick out, task, throw, undertaking, visualise, visualize, Tower of Babel, blueprint, bung, chuck, chunk, cook, council estate, dash, dump, extend, feck, fling, forecast, foresee, foretell, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, missile, peck, peg, pick, pitch, plot, precipitate, project, proposal, protrusion, protuberance, quoit, scheme, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

Related Words

extrapolate

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