English Online Dictionary. What means project? What does project mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/, (rare) /ˈpɹəʊ.dʒɛkt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɐʊ.d͡ʒekt/, /ˈpɹɔd͡ʒ.ekt/
- (General American) enPR: prŏʹjĕkt', prŏʹjĭkt IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkt/, /ˈpɹɑ.d͡ʒɪkt/, [-d͡ʒɪ̈kt]
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/, /ˈpɹoʊ.d͡ʒɛkt/
- Rhymes: -ɒdʒɛkt, -əʊdʒɛkt
- Hyphenation: proj‧ect
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: prə-jĕktʹ IPA(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒekt/
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
- Hyphenation: pro‧ject
Noun
project (plural projects)
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- Synonyms: plan; see also Thesaurus:design
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
- (usually in the plural, US) An urban, low-income housing building.
- Synonyms: council estate, scheme
- (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- Synonym: Tower of Babel
- (US, sports) A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
- (obsolete) A projectile.
- Synonym: missile
- (obsolete) A projection.
- Synonyms: protuberance, protrusion
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: プロジェクト (purojekuto)
- → Korean: 프로젝트 (peurojekteu)
- → Scottish Gaelic: pròiseact
Translations
Verb
project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)
- (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
- Synonyms: extend, jut, protrude, stick out
- (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- Synonyms: cast, throw; see also Thesaurus:throw
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- Synonyms: extend, jut, jut out
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- Synonyms: forecast, foresee, foretell
- (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
- (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.
- (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.
- (neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
- (transitive) To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
- (intransitive) To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
Derived terms
- misproject (verb)
Translations
See also
- extrapolate
Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “project”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin prōiectum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. via French or borrowed from Latin?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proːˈjɛkt/
- Hyphenation: pro‧ject
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Noun
project n (plural projecten, diminutive projectje n)
- project (planned endeavor)
Derived terms
- bouwproject
- kunstproject
- projectmanager
- projectonderwijs
- projectontwikkelaar
Related terms
- projecteren
- projectie
- projector
Descendants
- Afrikaans: projek
- → Indonesian: proyek
- → Trió: project
Occitan
Alternative forms
- (Provençal) projecte, (Languedoc) projècte
Noun
project m (plural projects) (Limousin)
- project
Related terms
- projectar
Further reading
- Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN, page 464.