{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "pr\u0251\u02c8\u02a4\u025bkt", "\u02c8pr\u0251\u02a4\u025bkt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (Canada)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (Canada)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/project.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/project.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (Canada)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (Canada)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Latin pr\u014diectus, perfect passive participle of pr\u014dici\u014d (\u201cthrow forth, extend; expel\u201d)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.\na. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation\nprojects of happiness devised by human reason\n1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22:Rainbow, came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares\n2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)\nThe proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.\nAudio (US)(file)" }, { "mean": "(usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.\nProjects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.\n1996, \u201cStakes is High\u201d, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul:Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects\n2012, \u201cMoney Trees\u201d, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock:Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets" }, { "mean": "(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.\na man given to projects" }, { "mean": "(US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough\n2014 October 27, Gabriele Marcotti, \u201cAncelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more\u201d, in ESPN FC:Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.\n2018 September 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, \u201cBroncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch\u201d, in WNYT:Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A projectile." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A projection." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.\nSynonyms: extend, jut, protrude, stick out" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.\nSynonyms: cast, throw\n1596, Edmund Spenser, \u201cBook VI, Canto I\u201d, in The Faerie Queene.\u00a0, London: for William Ponsonbie, \u2192OCLC, stanza 45:Before his feet her selfe she did proiect\n1713, Alexander Pope, \u201cWindsor-Forest.\u00a0\u201d, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot,\u00a0, published 1717, \u2192OCLC:Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.\nSynonyms: extend, jut, jut out" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.\nSynonyms: forecast, foresee, foretell\n1834, L E L, chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara.\u00a0, volume III, London: Richard Bentley,\u00a0, (successor to Henry Colburn), \u2192OCLC, page 172:To form a strict alliance between the cabinets of Paris and London\u2014which meant, that he should influence both,\u2014to induce Charles to marry the loveliest of his nieces, Hortense\u2014thus making a common interest between them, were now the great objects with the Cardinal; and the present visit was of his projecting.\nThe CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.\n1667, John Milton, \u201cBook II\u201d, in Paradise Lost.\u00a0, London: ,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:\u00a0, London: Basil Montagu Pickering\u00a0, 1873, \u2192OCLC:projecting Peace and Warr?" }, { "mean": "(transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.\n1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay; The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure\u200e:It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are." }, { "mean": "(transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality." }, { "mean": "(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection." }, { "mean": "(geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure." }, { "mean": "(neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location" }, { "mean": "To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.\n2016, Sam Esmail; Courtney Looney, Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Abrams Books, New York City, \u2192ISBN:You would think that topic coulda put me to sleep, but HE can really project when HE wants to." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors(1989),\u201cproject\u201d, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford Clarendon Press, \u2192ISBN." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } }