What is the meaning of project?

noun

  • Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
    • usage: "he prepared for great undertakings"
  • A planned undertaking.

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"
  • 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"
  • Regard as objective.
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APAWordNet. (2010). project. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/project/definitions/1214576
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