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PROJECT

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

Example:

he prepared for great undertakings

Synonyms:

labor; project; task; undertaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("project" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "project"):

breeze; child's play; cinch; duck soup; picnic; piece of cake; pushover; snap; walkover (any undertaking that is easy to do)

adventure; dangerous undertaking; escapade; risky venture (a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful))

assignment (an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor))

baby (a project of personal concern to someone)

endeavor; endeavour; enterprise (a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness))

labor of love; labour of love (productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation)

endurance contest; marathon (any long and arduous undertaking)

no-brainer (anything that requires little thought)

proposition (a task to be dealt with)

large order; tall order (a formidable task or requirement)

venture (any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome)

Instance hyponyms:

Manhattan Project (code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II)

Derivation:

project (make or work out a plan for; devise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A planned undertaking

Synonyms:

project; projection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("project" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "project"):

cash cow; money-spinner; moneymaker (a project that generates a continuous flow of money)

Derivation:

project (make or work out a plan for; devise)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.

Example:

The candidate projects himself as a moderate and a reformer

Synonyms:

project; propose

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

plan (make plans for something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

offer (put forward for consideration)

introduce (put before (a body))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sense 2

Meaning:

Regard as objective

Synonyms:

externalise; externalize; project

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Communicate vividly

Example:

He projected his feelings

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Throw, send, or cast forward

Example:

project a missile

Synonyms:

project; send off

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

impel; propel (cause to move forward with force)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Put or send forth

Example:

cast a warm light

Synonyms:

cast; contrive; project; throw

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

direct; send (cause to go somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

shoot (send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Example:

I can see a risk in this strategy

Synonyms:

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

Verb group:

realise; realize; see; understand (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

visualise; visualize (form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 8

Meaning:

Make or work out a plan for; devise

Example:

plan an attack

Synonyms:

contrive; design; plan; project

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

plot (devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet))

concert (contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement)

map; map out (plan, delineate, or arrange in detail)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

Did he project his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

project (any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted)

project (a planned undertaking)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Draw a projection of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 10

Meaning:

Project on a screen

Example:

The images are projected onto the screen

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

show (make visible or noticeable)

Cause:

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

silhouette (project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

projection (the projection of an image from a film onto a screen)

projector (an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen)

Sense 11

Meaning:

Cause to be heard

Example:

His voice projects well

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "project" is one way to...):

cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

projection (the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality)

Sense 12

Meaning:

Extend out or project in space

Example:

A single rock sticks out from the cliff

Synonyms:

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "project"):

overhang (project over)

push up; thrust (push upward)

spear; spear up (thrust up like a spear)

bag; bulge (bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge)

cantilever (project as a cantilever)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

projection (the act of projecting out from something)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Where now was our project of remasting the Ghost?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The building stage was led by six students, but a total 400 worked on the project, which involved other science activities as well.

(Satellite made by Brazilian junior high students launched in Japan, Agência Brasil)

The NCI Thesaurus, which is a biomedical thesaurus created specifically to meet the needs of the NCI, is produced by the NCI EVS project.

(NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign epithelial neoplasm that projects above the surrounding epithelial surface.

(Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I revolved many projects, but that on which I finally fixed was to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

An adenocarcinoma in which the tumor elements are arranged as finger-like processes or as a solid spherical nodule projecting from an epithelial surface.

(Papillary Cystadenocarcinoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Your wicked project upon her peace turns out a clever thought indeed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; and missed no opportunity of projecting weddings among all the young people of her acquaintance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A project to develop standards for the collection and analysis of patient-reported health status data using a system of highly reliable, precise measures for physical, mental, and social well-being.

(Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, NCI Thesaurus)