| project | |
| 1. n. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages. | |
| 2. n. (usually US) An urban low-income housing building. | |
| Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished. | |
| 3. n. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design. | |
| a man given to projects | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A projectile. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A projection. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface. | |
| 8. v. To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. | |
| 9. v. To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward. | |
| 10. v. To make plans for; to forecast. | |
| The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality. | |
| 13. v. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection. | |
