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Project   /prˈɑdʒɛkt/  /prədʒˈɛkt/   Listen
Project

noun
1.
Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.  Synonyms: labor, task, undertaking.
2.
A planned undertaking.  Synonym: projection.
verb
(past & past part. projected; pres. part. projecting)
1.
Communicate vividly.
2.
Extend out or project in space.  Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out.  "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"
3.
Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another.
4.
Project on a screen.
5.
Cause to be heard.
6.
Draw a projection of.
7.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: contrive, design, plan.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
8.
Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc..  Synonym: propose.  "She proposed a new theory of relativity"
9.
Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.  Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize.  "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"
10.
Put or send forth.  Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw.  "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"
11.
Throw, send, or cast forward.  Synonym: send off.
12.
Regard as objective.  Synonyms: externalise, externalize.



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"Project" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rising cautiously, she looked about and discovered it on the long table, uncorked it, drank from the bottle. Only two fiery mouthfuls, however. She dared not take more in her present state of weakness and emptiness. The drink warmed her slightly, gave her back just enough strength to go on. Her project began to look ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... history. Much lies ahead of that. And all this puts it in my mind to write you a little discourse on style. Gardiner has no style. He put his facts down much as he would have noted on a blue print the facts about an engineering project that he sketched. The style of your article, which has much to be said for it as a magazine article, is not the best ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick
... one or two renewal spurs. The arms will thus in two or three years be increased to four, or, with very large vines, to six. These spurs should be chosen as nearly as possible in the plane of the trellis, that is, they should not project out sideways. Figure 25 shows vines of this kind of full ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick
... your friends at London to your Majesty, his Lordship kept him retired, and he was not suffered to attend you—fearing that what he had written to your Majesty relating to his Lordship might spoil his project of going to Ireland with you. We had observed at London the great aversion men of all professions had at his being employed, and we knew he was in no better esteem in his own country, which made us entreat your Majesty to leave him in France, and some, upon his own account, ...
— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris
... in which Grandcourt stimulated a feeling in Gwendolen that he would have liked to suppress without seeming to care about it, had relation to Mirah. Gwendolen's inclination lingered over the project of the singing lessons as a sort of obedience to Deronda's advice, but day followed day with that want of perceived leisure which belongs to lives where there is no work to mark off intervals; and the continual liability to Grandcourt's ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot


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