The Meaning of project

• (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
• (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
• (n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
• (v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
• (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
• (v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.

Synonyms

undertaking , task , labor , projection , stick out , protrude , jut out , jut , plan , contrive , design , propose , visualize , visualise , envision , fancy , see , figure , picture , image , cast , contrive , throw , send off , externalize , externalise

Rhymes

affect , aftereffect , albrecht , architect , aspect , becht , bedecked , brecht , checked , circumspect , collect , confect , connect , correct , decked , defect , deflect , deject , deregt , detect , dialect , direct , disaffect , disconnect , disinfect , disrespect , dissect , effect , eject , elect , erect , expect , fecht , hecht , henpecked , incorrect , indirect , infect , inject , insect , inspect , intellect , interconnect , interject , intersect , introspect , knecht , misdirect , necked , neglect , nondirect , object , overprotect , pecht , perfect , prefect , protect , rechecked , recht , recollect , reconnect , redirect , reflect , reinspect , reject , respect , resurrect , retrospect , schlecht , sect , select , specht , subject , suspect , teleconnect , trekked , unchecked , wecht , whelked , wrecked