project | |
1. n. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages. | |
2. n. (usually US) An urban low-income housing building. | |
Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished. | |
3. n. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design. | |
a man given to projects | |
4. n. (obsolete) A projectile. | |
5. n. (obsolete) A projection. | |
6. n. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface. | |
8. v. To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. | |
9. v. To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward. | |
10. v. To make plans for; to forecast. | |
The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007. | |
11. v. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way. | |
12. v. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality. | |
13. v. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection. | |