1. Noun
The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
2. Noun
That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
3. Noun
An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
4. Verb
To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
5. Verb
To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
6. Verb
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.
7. Verb
To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
8. Verb
To form a project; to scheme.
9. Verb
present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"; "The candidate projects himself as a moderate and a reformer"
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