Definition of "project"

project

/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/

noun
plural projects
1. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
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  projects of happiness devised by human reason
  a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
  Rainbow, […] came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares
  1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22
  The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain. Audio (US)(file)
  2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
2. (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
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  Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects
  1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul
  Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets
  2012, “Money Trees”, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock
3. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
4. (US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
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  Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
  2014 October 27, Gabriele Marcotti, “Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more”, in ESPN FC
  Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't.
  2018 September 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, “Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch”, in WNYT
5. (obsolete) A projectile.
6. (obsolete) A projection.
verb
third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected
1. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
2. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
  Quotations
  Before his feet her selfe she did proiect
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 45
  Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
  1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717
3. (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
4. (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
  Quotations
  To form a strict alliance between the cabinets of Paris and London—which meant, that he should influence both,—to induce Charles to marry the loveliest of his nieces, Hortense—thus making a common interest between them, were now the great objects with the Cardinal; and the present visit was of his projecting.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 172
  projecting Peace and Warr?
  1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
5. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
  Quotations
  It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.
  1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure‎
6. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
7. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
8. (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.
9. (neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
10. (transitive) To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
11. (intransitive) To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
  Quotations
  You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to.
  2016, Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney, Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Abrams Books, New York City

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