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Project

noun

1.

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted. Synonyms: labor, task, undertaking.

2.

A planned undertaking. Synonym: projection.

verb

(past & past part. projected; pres. part. projecting)

1.

Communicate vividly.

2.

Extend out or project in space. Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out. "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

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. Synonyms: contrive, design, plan. "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"

8.

Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.. Synonym: propose. "She proposed a new theory of relativity"

9.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize. "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"

10.

Put or send forth. Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw. "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"

11.

Throw, send, or cast forward. Synonym: send off.

12.

Regard as objective. Synonyms: externalise, externalize.

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"Project" Quotes from Famous Books

... despite the wind, which was against them, while another friendly monster of the sea swam around and around the little fleet, breaking the force of the waves. Lonopele then sent a colossal bird to vomit over the canoes and sink them, but mats were put up in tent-form as protections, and this project also failed. ...

— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner

... impressively, "I want you to go to Vienna in my place." Brock stared hard. "You are a godsend, old man. You're just in time to do me the greatest of favours. It's utterly impossible for me to go to Vienna as I had planned, and yet it is equally unwise for me to give up the project. You see, I've just got to be in London and Vienna at the ...

— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon

... copy the following skit, which, but for the mention of the old convict colony, might have been written last week. It is headed "Extract from the forthcoming history of the Irish Parliament." The Home Rule project is ...

— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

... be seen a yellow efflorescence, which at the places which I got at to examine it consisted of sulphur. The edge of the crater is solid rock, a little-weathered augiteandesite differing very much in its nature at different places. The same or similar rocks also project at several places at the old border of the crater, but the whole surface of the volcanic cone besides consists of small loose pieces of lava, without any trace of vegetation. Only at one place the brim of the old crater is ...

— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold

... the reduction of Rhode Island having failed, and their fleet having been dispersed in a storm, during which some were disabled, and others captured, and finally the appearance of Lord Howe with a reinforced but still inferior squadron, induced them to abandon the project, and, after refitting at Boston, to steer ...

— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I • Sir John Ross

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