From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], perfect passive participle of [la].
*** Pronunciation
Noun
- [en]
- [en]
- [prŏʹjĕkt'] [en]
- [en]
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- [en]
Verb
- [prə-jĕktʹ] [en]
- [en]
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- [en]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A plan ned endeavor , usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=a. 1729 | author= [John Rogers (priest)] | title=The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
|passage= PROJECTS of happiness devised by human reason}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1924 | author=w:Clarence Budington Kelland | title=s:The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22
|passage=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}}
1. * 2019 , VOA Learning English (see https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html) (public domain)
2. *: The proposal with China would involve a PROJECT to create artificial rain.
3. [en] An urban, low-income housing building.
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] An idle scheme ; an impracticable design .
7. [en] A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot , diamond in the rough .
8. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=Oct 27 2014 | author=Gabriele Marcotti | titleurl=https://www.espn.in/football/blog/name/62/post/2112824/headline | title=Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more | journal=ESPN FC
|passage=Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a PROJECT who could
develop into the next big thing.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=Sep 2 2018 | author=Arnie Melendrez Stapleton | titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724105107/https://wnyt.com/sports/broncos-cut-ties-with-2016-first-round-pick-qb-lynch/5055527/ | title=Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch | journal=WNYT
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A projectile .
2. [en] A projection .
**** Hyponyms
{{col3|en|pilot project |subproject |Web project }}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Descendants
- [ja]
- [ko]
- [gd]
**** Translations
[planned endeavor]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chakma: [ccp]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Karakalpak: [kaa]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] [Indonesia]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Nupe: [nup] , [nup]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Tigre: [tig]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] ), [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[urban low-income housing building]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To extend beyond a surface.
2. [en] To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
3. * [book=VI]
4. * [passage=Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / PROJECT long shadows o'er the crystal tide.]
5. [en] To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
6. [en] To make plans for; to forecast .
7. * [page=172]
8. * [book=2]
9. [en] To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression , usually in a good way.
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1946 | author=Dr. Ralph S. Banay; The Milwaukee Journal | title=Is Modern Woman a Failure | url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19461207&id=NS0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8iMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4499,3742545
|passage=_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._}}
1. [en] To assume qualities or mindset s in others based on one's own personality .
2. [en] To change the projection (or coordinate system ) of spatial data with another projection.
3. [en] 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.
4. [en] (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon (s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
5. [en] To cause (one's voice or words) to be heard at a great distance.
6. [en] To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard at a great distance.
7. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2016 | author=w:Sam Esmail; Courtney Looney | title=Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt | publisher= [Abrams Books] , New York City | isbn=978-1-4197-2442-8
|passage=You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really
PROJECT when HE wants to.}}
1. [en]
2. * [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to extend beyond a surface]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , (zich) [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to cast (image, shadow)]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] [image] , [de] [image]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to make plans for; forecast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] ; [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to present, convey an image]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , (sich) [de] , (sich) [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to assume about others]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:OED2]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Ultimately from [nl]. [nl]
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en] (planned endeavor)
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Related terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [af]
- [id]
- [tri]
** Occitan
*** Alternative forms
- [oc]
*** Noun
[m] [oc]
1. [en]
**** Related terms
- [oc]
*** Further reading
- [R:dduoflmp2010] , page 464.