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Webster 1913 Edition
Project
Proj′ect
(?; 277)
, Noun.
1.
The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
[Obs.]
Holland.
2.
That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Vented much policy, and
projects
deep. Milton.
Projects
of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers.
He entered into the
project
with his customary ardor. Prescott.
3.
An idle scheme; an impracticable design;
as, a man given to
. projects
Syn. – Design; scheme; plan; purpose.
–
Project
, Design
. A project is something of a practical nature thrown out for consideration as to its being done. A design is a project when matured and settled, as a thing to be accomplished. An ingenious man has many projects, but, if governed by sound sense, will be slow in forming them into designs. See also Scheme
. Pro-ject′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Projected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Projecting
.] [Cf. OF.
projecter
, F. projeter
.] 1.
To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Before his feet herself she did
project
. Spenser.
Behold! th’ ascending villas on my side
Project
long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope.
2.
To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme;
as, to
. project
a planWhat sit then
projecting
peace and war? Milton.
3.
(Persp.)
To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate;
as, to
; – sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; project
a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the likeas, to
. See project
a line or point upon a planeProjection
, 4. Pro-ject′
,Verb.
I.
1.
To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut;
as, the cornice
projects
; branches project
from the tree.2.
To form a project; to scheme.
[R.]
Fuller.
Webster 1828 Edition
Project
PROJECT'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To throw out; to cast or shoot forward. Th' ascending villas
Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
2.
To cast forward in the mind; to scheme; to contrive; to devise something to be done; as, to project a plan for paying off the national debt; to project an expedition to South America; to project peace or war.3.
To draw or exhibit, as the form of any thing; to delineate.PROJECT'
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
project
project
English
Noun
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
Translations
planned endeavor
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Verb
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
- (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
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
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.