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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