noun
- Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
- usage: "he prepared for great undertakings"
- synonyms: undertaking, task, labor
- A planned undertaking.
- synonyms: projection
verb
- Communicate vividly.
- usage: "He projected his feelings"
- Extend out or project in space.
- usage: "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"
- Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another.
- Project on a screen.
- usage: "The images are projected onto the screen"
- Cause to be heard.
- usage: "His voice projects well"
- Draw a projection of.
- Make or work out a plan for; devise.
- usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc..
- usage: "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"
- synonyms: propose
- Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
- usage: "I can't see him on horseback"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
- Put or send forth.
- usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
- Throw, send, or cast forward.
- usage: "project a missile"
- synonyms: send off
- Regard as objective.
- synonyms: externalize, externalise
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