Project

['prɒdʒekt] or [ˈprɔdʒɛkt]

Definition

(noun.) a planned undertaking.

(verb.) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; 'He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism'; 'She proposed a new theory of relativity'.

(verb.) regard as objective.

(verb.) communicate vividly; 'He projected his feelings'.

(verb.) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another.

(verb.) throw, send, or cast forward; 'project a missile'.

(verb.) put or send forth; 'She threw the flashlight beam into the corner'; 'The setting sun threw long shadows'; 'cast a spell'; 'cast a warm light'.

(verb.) draw a projection of.

(verb.) project on a screen; 'The images are projected onto the screen'.

(verb.) cause to be heard; 'His voice projects well'.

Inputed by Bobbie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

(n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

(n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

(v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

(v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

(v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

(v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.

Editor: Stacy

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Throw, cast, throw out.[2]. Scheme, devise, contrive, frame, plan, plot, concoct, brew.[3]. Delineate (as a sphere upon a plane).

v. n. Protrude, jut, bulge, jut out, stand out, be prominent.

n. Plan, scheme, contrivance, devise, design, proposal.

Edited by Adela

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Plan, purpose, design, scheme, contrivance, device

ANT:Hazard, chance, venture

SYN:Throw, cast, hurl, propel, shoot, discharge, propound, intend, forecast, jut,extend, reach, bulge, stand_out

ANT:Recal, withdraw, draw, retract, pull, attract, rebound, recoil, adduce, revert,rebate

Inputed by Bartholomew

Definition

v.t. to throw out or forward: to cast forward in the mind: to contrive or devise: to exhibit (as in a mirror): 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 exhibit in relief.—v.i. to shoot forward: to jut out: to be prominent.—adj. Projec′tile projecting or throwing forward: impelling or impelled forward: that can be thrust forward.—n. a body projected by force esp. through the air: a cannon or rifle ball.—adj. Projec′ting.—n. Projec′tion the act of projecting: that which juts out: a plan or design: a delineation: a representation of any object on a plane esp. (geom.) the earth's surface: (alch.) the act of throwing anything into a crucible hence the act or result of transmutation of metals: the crisis of any process esp. a culinary process.—adj. Projec′tive produced by projection: (geom.) capable as two plane figures of being derived from one another by a number of projections and sections.—ns. Projectiv′ity; Project′ment (rare) design; Projec′tor one who projects or forms schemes: a parabolic mirror: a camera for throwing an image on a screen; Projec′ture a jutting out beyond the main line or surface.—Mercator's projection a map of the world with meridian lines which are straight and parallel and with parallels of latitude at distances from each other increasing towards the poles invented by the Flemish cosmographer Mercator in 1550.

n. a plan: a scheme: contrivance.

Editor: Maggie