project
English
Etymology
From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒdʒɛkt/, (rare) /ˈpɹəʊdʒɛkt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒdʒɛkt/
- (General American) enPR: prŏjʹĕkt', prŏjʹĭkt IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒˌɛkt/, /ˈpɹɑdʒɪ̈kt/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑdʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹoʊdʒɛkt/
Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkt, -ɒdʒəkt, -ɒdʒɪkt, -oʊdʒɛkt
- Hyphenation: proj‧ect
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: prə-jĕktʹ IPA(key): /pɹəˈdʒɛkt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
- Hyphenation: proj‧ect
Noun
project (plural projects)
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- (Can we date this quote?) Rogers
- projects of happiness devised by human reason
- (Can we date this quote?) Prescott
- He entered into the project with his customary ardour.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
Audio (US) (file)
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
- (Can we date this quote?) Rogers
- (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
- Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
- (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- a man given to projects
- (obsolete) A projectile.
- (obsolete) A projection.
- (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
Hyponyms
- pilot project
- subproject
- Web project
Translations
planned endeavor
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Verb
project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)
- (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
- (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spenser
- Before his feet herself she did project.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spenser
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- projecting peace and war
- (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
- 1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure:
- 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:
- (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.
Synonyms
Translations
to extend beyond a surface
to cast (image/shadow)
to extend outward
to make plans for; forecast
to present, convey an image
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to assume about others
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References
- “project” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin prōiectum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proːˈjɛkt/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧ject
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Derived terms
- bouwproject
- kunstproject
- projectonderwijs
- projectontwikkelaar
Related terms
- projecteren
- projectie
- projector
Descendants
- Afrikaans: projek
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