Meaning of project In English

• 0 a piece of planned work or an activity that is finished over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular purpose:

  • the Kings Cross housing project

  • a scientific research project

  • Her latest project is a film based on the life of a 19th-century music hall star.

  • My next project is decorating the kitchen.

  • He's doing a class project on pollution.

  • In our third year at college everyone had to do a special project.

• 1 to calculate an amount or number expected in the future from information already known:

  • [ + to infinitive ] Government spending is projected to rise by three percent next year.

• 2 to throw or direct something forwards, with force:

  • 90 percent of the projected missiles will hit their target.

  • It's a big theatre so you really have to project your voice if you're going to be heard at the back.

• 3 to cause a film, image, or light to appear on a screen or other surface:

  • Laser images were projected onto a screen.

  • I suspect he's projecting his fears onto you.

  • Recently the president has sought to project a much tougher image.

• 4 to stick out over an edge or from a surface:

  • The hotel dining room projects out over the water.

• 5 a piece of planned work or activity that is completed over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular aim:

  • a research project

  • construction projects

  • Painting the bedroom is Steve’s next project.

• 6 a housing project

• 7 to calculate an amount or result expected in the future from information already known:

  • The hotels are projecting big profits.

  • [ + (that) clause ] They project (that) 31 billion people will watch the World Cup.

• 8 to stick out beyond the edge of something:

  • The hotel dining room projects (out) over the water.

• 9 to cause a picture or light to appear on a surface:

  • We don’t have a screen but we can project the slides onto the back wall.

• 10 to throw something forward or into the air:

  • The device allows you to scoop up a ball and project it some 140 feet.

  • Singers are used to projecting their voices.

• 11 a piece of planned work or an activity which is done over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular purpose:

  • The date for starting the project will be set once financing is completed.

  • set up/launch a project They set up the research project with help from the university.

  • fund/pay for/finance a project Two local businesses funded the project.

  • manage/run a project

  • complete/finish a project

  • a joint/large/major project

  • a building/construction/development project

• 12 to calculate an amount or number expected in the future from information already known:

  • The amount was less than we had projected.

  • The state is projecting a $275 million shortfall for the rest of the fiscal year.

  • be projected (to do sth) Growth rate is projected for five years.

  • The deficit is projected to rise to $17 million next year.

  • The project controller said the highway was currently seeing between 20,000 and 24,000 vehicles a day, fewer than the 26,000 originally projected.

  • The review projects that gas could end up accounting for more than 50% of generating supply by 2020.

• 13 to plan for sth to happen or expect sth to happen:

  • be projected to do sth The work is projected to start in November.

• 14 to make other people see or feel a particular quality or idea in the way you behave:

  • The candidate projects supreme confidence in his own views and abilities.

  • He was told that arriving in his Rolls-Royce might project the wrong image .

• 15 to cause an image to appear on a screen or surface using a projector:

  • project sth on/onto sth The digital video will be projected on a huge I-MAX screen.