Project

/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/ · noun

Meaning

A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages..

Definitions by Sense

1. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
2. (usually in the plural, US) An urban, low-income housing building.
3. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
4. (US, sports) A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
5. (obsolete) A projectile.
6. (obsolete) A projection.
7. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
8. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

Example Sentences

The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.

projects of happiness devised by human reason

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

Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.

Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects

Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets

a man given to projects

Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.

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• projects
• projecting
• projected

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