- pro|ject´a|ble
- proj|ect «noun. PROJ ehkt; verb. pruh JEHKT», noun, verb.–n.1. a plan; scheme: »
Flying in a heavy machine was once thought an impossible project.
SYNONYM(S): See syn. under plan. (Cf. ↑plan)3. a special assignment planned and carried out by a student, a group of students, or an entire class.4. U.S. a group of apartment buildings built and run as a unit; a housing project: »Lucretia…lives in the same project, one flight up (New Yorker).
╂[< Latin prōjectum < prōjicere; see the verb]–v.t.1. a) to plan; scheme: »The government projected a tax decrease. I projected and drew up a plan for the union (Benjamin Franklin).
SYNONYM(S): devise, contrive. b) to make a forecast for (something) on the basis of past performance: »to project a population increase of 20 per cent in ten years.
SYNONYM(S): foresee, forecast.2. to throw or cast forward: »to project a missile into space. A cannon projects shells.
3. to cause to fall on a surface or into space: »Motion pictures are projected on the screen. The tree projects a shadow on the grass.
4. to cause to stick out or protrude: »to project a pier out into the lake.
5. to draw lines through (a point, line or figure) and reproduce it on a line, plane, or surface.6. Psychology. to treat as objective and external (what is essentially subjective).–v.i.2. U.S. Dialect. to make plans, especially in an ineffective way.╂[< Latin prōjectus, past participle of prōjicere stretch out, expel < prō- forward + jacere to throw]–pro|ject´a|ble, adjective.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
