project

IPA: prˈɑdʒɛkt

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.

(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.

Examples of "project" in Sentences

The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture.
Change to your project directory (e.g. 'cd/d "D: \my 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.