Definitions of ProJect [ʊˈhɪb ɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i]

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Definition of 'ProJect'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) project
something that is planned or devised; a plan or scheme.

2.  project
a large or important undertaking, esp. one involving considerable expense, personnel, and equipment.

3.  project
a specific task of investigation, esp. in scholarship.

4.  project
a supplementary long-term assignment given by a teacher to students.

5.  project
Often, projects.

6. (v.t.) project
to devise, propose, or plan.

7.  project
to throw or impel forward, onward, or outward.

8.  project
to calculate (some future cost, schedule, etc.).

9.  project
to throw or cause to fall upon a surface or into space, as a ray of light, an image, or a shadow.

10.  project
to ascribe (one's own feelings, prejudices, etc.) to another or others.

11.  project
to cause to jut out or protrude.

12.  project
Geom.

13.  project
to transform the points of (one figure) into those of another by a correspondence between points.

14.  project
to present (an idea, program, etc.) for consideration or action.

15.  project
to use (one's voice, gestures, etc.) forcefully enough to be heard or understood by all members of an audience.

16.  project
to communicate clearly and forcefully (one's thoughts, feelings, etc.) to an audience.

17. (v.i.) project
to extend or protrude beyond something else.

18.  project
to use one's voice forcefully enough to be heard at a distance, as in a theater.

19.  project
to communicate clearly and forcefully one's thoughts, feelings, etc., to an audience.

20.  project
to ascribe one's own feelings, thoughts, or attitudes to another or others.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME project(e) design, plan < ML prōjectum, L: projecting part, n. use of neut. of prōjectus, ptp. of prōicere to throw forward, extend =prō-pro -¹+-icere, comb. form of jacere to throw)

Definition of 'ProJect'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) undertaking, project, task, labor
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
"he prepared for great undertakings"

2. (verb) project, projection
a planned undertaking

3. (verb) project
communicate vividly
"He projected his feelings"

4. (verb) stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project
extend out or project in space
"His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

5. (verb) project
transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

6. (verb) project
project on a screen
"The images are projected onto the screen"

7. (verb) project
cause to be heard
"His voice projects well"

8. (verb) project
draw a projection of

9. (verb) plan, project, contrive, design
make or work out a plan for; devise
"They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"

10. (verb) project, propose
present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
"He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"

11. (verb) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
"I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"

12. (verb) project, cast, contrive, throw
put or send forth
"She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"

13. (verb) project, send off
throw, send, or cast forward
"project a missile"

14. (verb) project, externalize, externalise
regard as objective

Definition of 'ProJect'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) project
an organized job or piece of work
a project to encourage people to recycle; a project aimed at providing laptops to students in poor countries

2.  project
school work on a particular subject
We're doing a project on our community.

3. (verb) project
to predict a future amount, level, etc.; = forecast
a survey projecting that sea levels would rise

4.  project
to stick out; = protrude
a long pier projecting out from the shore

5.  project
to behave in a way that makes people think you have a particular quality
Here are four easy steps to help you project confidence.

6.  project
to show a movie, photograph, etc. through a projector onto a screen
a film projected onto the wall

Definition of 'ProJect'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) ProJect
the place from which a thing projects, or starts forth

2. (noun) ProJect
that which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan

3. (noun) ProJect
an idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects

4. (verb) ProJect
to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth

5. (verb) ProJect
to cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan

6. (verb) ProJect
to draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4

7. (verb) ProJect
to shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree

8. (verb) ProJect
to form a project; to scheme

Translation of 'ProJect'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a plan or scheme a building project.
Afrikaans: projek	Arabic: مَشْروع، خُطَّه	Bulgarian: проект
Brazilian: projeto	Czech: projekt	German: der Plan
Danish: projekt; -projekt	Greek: πρόγραμμα, (τεχνικό) έργο	Spanish: proyecto
Estonian: projekt	Farsi: طرح	Finnish: projekti
French: projet	Hebrew: פְּרוֹיֶקט, מֵיזָם	Hindi: प्रायोजना, परियोजना
Hungarian: terv(ezet), projekt	Indonesian: proyek	Icelandic: áætlun
Italian: progetto	Japanese: 企画	Korean: 계획
Lithuanian: planas, projektas	Latvian: projekts; plāns	Malay: projek
Dutch: project	Norwegian: prosjekt, plan, utkast	Polish: plan
Persian: طرح	Pashto: پروژه،پلان	Portuguese: projecto
Romanian: proiect	Russian: проект	Slovak: projekt
Slovenian: načrt	Serbian: projekat	Swedish: projekt
Thai: แผนงาน	Turkish: tasarı, proje	Taiwanese: 計劃，方案
Ukrainian: проект; план	Urdu: منصوبہ	Vietnamese: dự án
Chinese: 计划，方案
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