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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

... then. Shall I and my following hang on to your skirts and stay with you till nightfall, when you and your steed must return home? You decline—with thanks! and very wisely, for the execution of this project would be equally unpleasant to you and to me, and would probably get you punished. Whisper to me then, softly, in my ear, where your master is lodging, and from whom and to whom you are carrying those flowers; as soon as you have agreed to that proposal I will let ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... the project that was being hatched was one of the most abject. A young girl, known by some to be possessed of a fortune, was the stake for which these workers of iniquity gambled across one of mine host's greasy tables. The latest decree of the Convention, encouraging, nay, commanding, the union of aristocrats ...

— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... consists in the belief that apart from the momentary sounds of letters composing a word, there was a complete word form which was manifested (spho@ta) but not created by the passing sounds of the syllables. The work of the syllable sounds is only to project this word manifestation. See Vacaspati's Tattvabindu, S'lokavarttika and Prakara@napancika. For the doctrine of anvitabhidhana ...

— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... to the professors and other scientific gentlemen of Edinburgh. But the state of the Scotch roads was at that time so horrible that he considered it impracticable to proceed further with his scheme, and he shortly gave it up in favour of his project of ...

— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various

... delight. They were still frisky boys out of school, one may say. But the plan was opposed in two quarters. First, the Dutch, statesmen and generals alike, threw every obstacle in the way. They would not hear of the project. Then Louis of Baden was in one of his worst sulky fits, and for a time refused his help. When he did consent to go, he demanded a delay, pleading that a wound he had received at the Schellenberg, in the ...

— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead

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