project
IPA: prˈɑdʒɛkt
noun
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
- (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- (US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
- (obsolete) A projectile.
- (obsolete) A projection.
verb
- (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
- (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
- (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.
- (geometry) 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.
- (neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
- (transitive) To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
- (intransitive) To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
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Examples of "project" in Sentences
- The project was perpetually in the design phase.
- The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture.
- The conceptual designs for the project have been prepared.
- Is this project absorbing the work of the former subproject
- The project is in preliminary stages and is in the design phase.
- Change to your project directory (e.g. 'cd/d "D: \my project\"')
- Bluewave is working diligently to contribute to the project here.
- Below is a spreadsheet that projects the key elements of the plan.
- A total of two lineal miles of bioswale was designed into the project.
- As in the past, the works project a tactile indulgence in fanciful glut.
- The people working on this project are honest and forthright individuals.
- The amount was put toward the completion of the planning phase of the project.
- He felt a thrill of accomplishment about to come to fruition: the clever boy bringing a term project to school at last.
- JK: The dirty little secret of the I-5 Toy Train project is that currently transit only carries 1220 round trips daily.
- We do volunteer work for the United Way, our main project is “Day of Caring” which is planning and making home repairs for people who are unable to do them.
- This project code is highlighted in GREEN in the uploaded word document attached to this project******** homepage to make sure you don't forget about our website next time you need to develop an IT project for yourself or your company.
- {: name = > \ "Nike\"} end it \ "should create a project for the account\" do do_post Account. first.should have (1). project end it \ "should create a video for the project\" do do_post Account. first.projects.first.should have (1). video end end
- At work, my main project is winding up (we'll have a Release Candidate this week, if all goes well) and I'm supposed to be 100% on another project, although the main project isn't quite dead yet and there are two or three other projects that would sure like to have an hour or two a day.