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Project   /prˈɑdʒɛkt/  /prədʒˈɛkt/   Listen
noun
Project  n.  
1.
The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. (Obs.)
2.
That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. "Vented much policy, and projects deep." "Projects of happiness devised by human reason." "He entered into the project with his customary ardor."
3.
An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
Synonyms: Design; scheme; plan; purpose. Project, Design. A project is something of a practical nature thrown out for consideration as to its being done. A design is a project when matured and settled, as a thing to be accomplished. An ingenious man has many projects, but, if governed by sound sense, will be slow in forming them into designs. See also Scheme.


verb
Project  v. t.  (past & past part. projected; pres. part. projecting)  
1.
To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. "Before his feet herself she did project." "Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide."
2.
To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan. "What sit then projecting peace and war?"
3.
(Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.


Project  v. i.  
1.
To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
2.
To form a project; to scheme. (R.)





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"Project" Quotes from Famous Books



... Institute, one rushed wrathfully down the aisle and seizing by the collar the man who manipulated the instrument, cried out, "Wretch, we are not to be made dupes of by a ventriloquist!" So it is readily understandable that after being referred to the Institute, Fulton and his project disappeared ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
... applause.' Of course I concluded that it would live two nights, and accounted for the dignified hauteur of my friend Tom's bow, as he caught my eye, by taking into consideration the above-named unprecedented success. There was also present the universal genius, Dr. Project, to whom I once introduced you. He is a great chymist, and a still greater gourmand; moreover, a musician; has a hand in the leading reviews; a share in the most prominent of the daily papers. "Little was said till the wine and desert were introduced; ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... project was concurred in by the German Government in a Note of February 28th, which added that "The Imperial Government considered it right that other raw materials, essential to manufacture for peaceful purposes, and also fodder, should also be ...
— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
... features. One might fancy the season over, and most of the houses gone out of town for ever with their masters. To the admirers of cities it is a Barmecide Feast: a pleasant field for the imagination to rove in; a monument raised to a deceased project, with not even a legible inscription to record its ...
— American Notes for General Circulation • Charles Dickens
... the great railroad project by which Edelweiss was to be connected with the Siberian line in the north, fell to his lot at a time when no one else could have saved the little government from heavy losses or even bankruptcy. The ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon


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