noun🔗ShareA planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages."The school's fundraising projects aim to build a new library. "businessplanorganizationworkindustryachievementprocessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building."Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished."propertyarchitecturebuildingareasocietygovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn idle scheme; an impracticable design."a man given to projects"planbusinessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough"The new basketball team is full of projects; while they lack experience now, the coach believes they have the potential to become star players. "sportbusinessachievementpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA projectile."Example Sentence: "During the science experiment, the small catapult launched the rolled-up paper, which became a series of projects arcing across the room." "weaponphysicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA projection."The architect's office displayed the building's projects on the wall, showing how it would look from different angles. "planbusinessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe place from which a thing projects."The projects of the roof extended a few feet beyond the wall of the house, providing shade. "placepartChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo extend beyond a surface."The broken shelf projects slightly from the wall, so be careful not to bump into it. "appearancepropertyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth."The movie projector projects images onto the large screen, making them visible to everyone in the audience. "appearancephysicstechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward."The shelf projects out from the wall, providing space for books. "partappearancebodyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make plans for; to forecast."The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007."planbusinessfutureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way."She always projects confidence, even when she's nervous. "appearancestylecharacterpersoncommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality."Because he is always late, he projects that everyone else is also secretly running behind schedule. "mindcharacterChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection."The GIS specialist projects the map data from a geographic coordinate system to a projected coordinate system for accurate area measurements. "geographytechnologycomputingscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo 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."The art teacher projects light through a stencil, creating a shadow puppet image on the wall. "mathphysicstechnologyfigureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(usually preceded by the) One or more high-density urban housing developments for residents having low incomes."Many families with limited income live in the projects in that part of the city. "propertybuildingareasocietygovernmentarchitectureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading