project

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A plan or proposal; a scheme. See Synonyms at plan.
2. n. An undertaking requiring concerted effort: a community cleanup project; a government-funded irrigation project.
3. n. An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.
4. n. A housing project.
5. v. To thrust outward or forward: project one's jaw in defiance.
6. v. To throw forward; hurl: project an arrow.
7. v. To send out into space; cast: project a light beam.
8. v. To cause (an image) to appear on a surface: projected the slide onto a screen.
9. v. Mathematics To produce (a projection).
10. v. To direct (one's voice) so as to be heard clearly at a distance.
11. v. Psychology To externalize and attribute (an emotion or motive, for example) unconsciously to someone or something else in order to avoid anxiety.
12. v. To convey an impression of to an audience or to others: a posture that projects defeat.
13. v. To form a plan or intention for: project a new business enterprise.
14. v. To calculate, estimate, or predict (something in the future), based on present data or trends: projecting next year's expenses.
15. v. To extend forward or out; jut out: beams that project beyond the eaves. See Synonyms at bulge.
16. v. To direct one's voice so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To throw out or forth; cast or shoot forward.
2. To cast forward in the mind; scheme; contrive; devise; plan.
3. In geometry: To throw forward in rays or straight lines, especially from a center; draw such rays through every point of.
4. To throw forward (lines) from a center through every point of the figure said to be projected, and then cut these with a surface upon which the figure is said to be projected.
5. To delineate according to any system of correspondence between the points of a figure and the points of the surface on which the delineation is made.
6. To throw, as it were, from the mind into the objective world; give an objective or real seeming to (something subjective).
7. To set forth; set out.
8. To shoot forward; extend beyond something else; jut; be prominent: as, a cornice or a promontory projects. The rays thrown forward in geometrical projection are said to project in this sense.
9. To form a scheme or project.
10. In alchemy, to make projection — that is, to throw philosopher's stone into a crucible of melted metal, and thus convert the latter into silver, gold, or the philosopher's stone.
11. Synonyms To protrude, bulge (out), stand out.
12. n. That which is projected or devised; a plan; a scheme; a design: as, projects of happiness.
13. n. Synonyms Scheme, Design, etc. See plan.
14. To move about busily or curiously; pry.
15. Projecting; sticking out.

Wiktionary

1. n. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
2. n. US An urban low-income housing building.
3. n. obsolete A projectile.
4. n. obsolete A projection.
5. v. intransitive To extend beyond a surface.
6. v. transitive To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface.
7. v. transitive To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
8. v. transitive To make plans for; to forecast.
9. v. transitive, reflexive To present (oneself), to convey a certian impression, usually in a good way.
10. v. cartography To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
2. n. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
3. n. An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
4. v. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
5. v. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme.
6. v. (Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; ; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.. See Projection, 4.
7. v. To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut
8. v. rare To form a project; to scheme.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. extend out or project in space
2. v. project on a screen
3. v. make or work out a plan for; devise.
4. v. cause to be heard
5. v. communicate vividly
6. v. draw a projection of
7. n. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
8. n. a planned undertaking
9. v. throw, send, or cast forward
10. v. present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
11. v. transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
12. v. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
13. v. put or send forth
14. v. regard as objective