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noun/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt//ˈpɹəʊ.dʒɛkt//ˈpɹɐʊ.d͡ʒekt/
  1. 1

    A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

    • The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
  2. 2

    An urban, low-income housing building.USplural-normally

    • Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
  3. 3

    An idle scheme; an impracticable design.dated

    • a man given to projects
  4. 4

    A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.US

    • Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
    • 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.
  5. 5

    A projectile.obsolete

  6. 6

    A projection.obsolete

verb/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt//pɹəˈd͡ʒekt/
  1. 1

    To extend beyond a surface.intransitive

  2. 2

    To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.transitive

    • Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
    • Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
  3. 3

    To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.transitive

  4. 4

    To make plans for; to forecast.transitive

    • The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
  5. 5

    To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.reflexivetransitive

    • 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, wom
  6. 6

    To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.transitive

  7. 7

    To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

  8. 8

    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.

  9. 9

    (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location

  10. 10

    To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.transitive

    • to project one's voice

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