PROJECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does projector mean? 

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

1. an optical device for projecting a beam of light

2. an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen

  Familiarity information: PROJECTOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROJECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An optical device for projecting a beam of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Derivation:

projectionist (the person who operates the projector in a movie house)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

optical instrument (an instrument designed to aid vision)

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

epidiascope (an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects)

front projector (a projector for digital input)

cine projector; film projector; movie projector (projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures)

overhead projector (a projector operated by a speaker; projects the image over the speaker's head)

slide projector (projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen)

Derivation:

project (project on a screen)

projectionist (the person who operates the projector in a movie house)

 Context examples 

When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses, which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In another apartment I was highly pleased with a projector who had found a device of ploughing the ground with hogs, to save the charges of ploughs, cattle, and labour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My lord was pleased to represent me as a great admirer of projects, and a person of much curiosity and easy belief; which, indeed, was not without truth; for I had myself been a sort of projector in my younger days.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He said, that being then not very well with the court, and pressed by many of his friends, he complied with the proposal; and after employing a hundred men for two years, the work miscarried, the projectors went off, laying the blame entirely upon him, railing at him ever since, and putting others upon the same experiment, with equal assurance of success, as well as equal disappointment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several passages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado; and the humour prevailed so strongly among the people, that there is not a town of any consequence in the kingdom without such an academy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)