PROJECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does project mean? 

• PROJECT (noun)
  The noun PROJECT has 2 senses:

1. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

2. a planned undertaking

  Familiarity information: PROJECT used as a noun is rare.

• PROJECT (verb)
  The verb PROJECT has 12 senses:

1. communicate vividly

2. extend out or project in space

3. transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

4. project on a screen

5. cause to be heard

6. draw a projection of

7. make or work out a plan for; devise

8. present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.

9. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

10. put or send forth

11. throw, send, or cast forward

12. regard as objective

  Familiarity information: PROJECT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROJECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

labor; project; task; undertaking

Context example:

he prepared for great undertakings

Hypernyms ("project" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "project"):

adventure; dangerous undertaking; escapade; risky venture (a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful))

assignment (an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor))

baby (a project of personal concern to someone)

endeavor; endeavour; enterprise (a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness))

labor of love; labour of love (productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation)

endurance contest; marathon (any long and arduous undertaking)

no-brainer (anything that requires little thought)

proposition (a task to be dealt with)

large order; tall order (a formidable task or requirement)

venture (any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome)

breeze; child's play; cinch; duck soup; picnic; piece of cake; pushover; snap; walkover (any undertaking that is easy to do)

Instance hyponyms:

Manhattan Project (code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II)

Derivation:

project (make or work out a plan for; devise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A planned undertaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

project; projection

Hypernyms ("project" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "project"):

cash cow; money-spinner; moneymaker (a project that generates a continuous flow of money)

Derivation:

project (make or work out a plan for; devise)

• PROJECT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communicate vividly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

He projected his feelings

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extend out or project in space

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out

Context example:

A single rock sticks out from the cliff

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

overhang (project over)

push up; thrust (push upward)

spear; spear up (thrust up like a spear)

bag; bulge (bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge)

cantilever (project as a cantilever)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

projection (the act of projecting out from something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Project on a screen

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

The images are projected onto the screen

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

show (make visible or noticeable)

Cause:

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

silhouette (project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

projection (the projection of an image from a film onto a screen)

projector (an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cause to be heard

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

His voice projects well

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

projection (the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Draw a projection of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Make or work out a plan for; devise

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

contrive; design; plan; project

Context example:

plan an attack

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

plot (devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet))

concert (contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement)

map; map out (plan, delineate, or arrange in detail)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

Did he project his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

project (any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted)

project (a planned undertaking)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

project; propose

Context example:

The candidate projects himself as a moderate and a reformer

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

plan (make plans for something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

offer (put forward for consideration)

introduce (put before (a body))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sense 9

Meaning:

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize

Context example:

I can see a risk in this strategy

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

Verb group:

realise; realize; see; understand (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

visualise; visualize (form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 10

Meaning:

Put or send forth

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

cast; contrive; project; throw

Context example:

cast a warm light

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

direct; send (cause to go somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

shoot (send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 11

Meaning:

Throw, send, or cast forward

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

project; send off

Context example:

project a missile

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

impel; propel (cause to move forward with force)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 12

Meaning:

Regard as objective

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

externalise; externalize; project

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

That no project whatever shall be entertained with regard to our niece, without being first submitted to us— To you, sister Lavinia, Miss Clarissa interposed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A research project that is in an active grant funding cycle.

(Active Funded Research Project, NCI Thesaurus)

But Jo frowned upon the whole project and would have nothing to do with it at first.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The moonlight shone upon his huge projecting eyes, the row of enormous teeth in his open mouth, and the gleaming fringe of claws upon his short, powerful forearms.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of two or more scientists working together on a research project.

(Co-Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)

Two rows of vascular fringes projecting from the underside of the tela choroidea where it exists over the third ventricle where cerebrospinal fluid is produced.

(Choroid Plexus of the Third Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

But it was then that the unexpected happened, the thing which projected their struggle for supremacy far into the future, past many a weary mile of trail and toil.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Several projects are now underway to characterize the human proteome.

(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)

Saturn will move to your sixth house of work-a-day projects.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The study used observations from the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, or SOCCOM, which releases instruments that drift with the currents to monitor Antarctic conditions.

(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)