Word Finder - project

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A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

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(usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building.

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Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.

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An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

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a man given to projects

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A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

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A projectile.

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A projection.

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The place from which a thing projects.

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To extend beyond a surface.

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• extend
• jut
• protrude
• stick out

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To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

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• cast
• throw

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To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

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• extend
• jut
• jut out

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To make plans for; to forecast.

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The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.

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• forecast
• foresee
• foretell

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To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

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To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

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To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

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To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.

Quinn's sabbatical project lost its funding.

We hugged each other when our exhausting project was completed.

This is your second commissioned art project in two weeks!

Definitely. The Cannery Row project will make you a hot commodity around here.

Donnie had pretty well taken over the project as the chores of Bird Song limited Cynthia's time.

But this relationship has all the ingredients to put this project in serious jeopardy.

Jessi carefully placed Ashley's project in a corner of the box, praying her cousin was alive to finish it one day.

In his home policy Pericles carried out more fully Ephialtes' project of making the Athenian people truly self-governing.

The largest new railway project is the Semiryechenskaya railway.

This grandiose project was unexpectedly destroyed by the energetic resistance of Japan, who had ear-marked the Hermit Kingdom for herself, and who declared plainly that she would never tolerate the exclusive influence of Russia in Manchuria.

Merrill Cooms new project, After, got off to a start the week we first met Julie.

The report of the committee, which is dated January 1897, was presented to parliament in April 1899, and dealt with the practicability of the project, the route, the cost and the revenue.

The case is frequent, too, in which a project is sanctioned by law, but is then not carried into execution, or only partly so, owing to the lack of funds.

In this way the development of Russian policy with regard to Turkey was checked for some years, but the project of confirming and extending the Russian protectorate over the Orthodox Christians was revived in 1852, when Napoleon III.

Quinn, surprised we were still clinging to our project, slumped down in an easy chair, journals in hand.

This project, differing from others that had been previously presented or that were in opposition to it, provided for a direct communication between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

In 1873 he became interested in a project for uniting Europe and Asia by a railway to Bombay, with a branch to Peking.

In 1548 Charles laid before the states a scheme for making the Netherlands an integral part of the empire under the name of the Circle of Burgundy; but the refusal of the German Electors to make his only son Philip king of the Romans led him to abandon the project, which was never renewed.

The cloaca is divided by transverse circular folds, which project from its inner walls, into three successive chambers.

He determined also to introduce into the Church many desirable reforms. His project was approved by an ecclesiastical council and was supported by the tsar, but it met with violent opposition from a large section of the clergy, and it alarmed the ignorant masses, who regarded any alterations in the ritual, however insignificant they might be, as heretical and very dangerous to salvation.

When put into execution the project produced in the Russian Church a great schism and numerous fantastic sects.

Already the desire to make his country a great naval power was becoming his ruling passion, and when he found by experience that the White Sea, Russia's sole maritime outlet, had great practical inconveniences as a naval base, he revived the project of getting a firm footing on the shores of the Black Sea or the Baltic. At first he gave the preference to the former, and with the aid of a flotilla of small craft, constructed on a tributary of the Don, he succeeded in capturing Azov from the Turks.

Teaching classes was unexciting to him and Martha recently told me his summer plant testing project was a major disappointment.

Quinn owed some residual time on his sabbatical project but his class commitments were nearly at an end.

Sarah loved a project; he could see the wheels turning.

Been here nearly a year but his project will be over soon and he'll be gone too—but not departed.

This project of closer union met, however, with much opposition both at Buenos Aires and the provinces.

Outrages on shipwrecked crews continued so rife that the question of occupation had to be taken up again; and in 1855 a project was formed for such a settlement, embracing a convict establishment.

Any member may bring in a " project of law," but it has to be submitted to the minister of the department concerned, who is allowed a month to consider it, and himself prepares the final draft laid on the table of the House.

During a halt of a few days in Poland on his way back from Vienna, King Augustus had explained to him a project for partitioning the transBaltic provinces of Sweden, by which Poland should recover Livonia and annex Esthonia, Russia should obtain Ingria and Karelia, and Denmark should take possession of Holstein.

By the peace of Jassy, signed in January 1792, she retained Ochakov and the coast between the Bug and the Dniester, and she secured certain privileges for the Danubian principalities, but the Turks remained in Constantinople, and the realization of the famous Greek project, as it was termed, had to be indefinitely postponed.

He regarded his project as a timely compromise.

In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must conform.

His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to send your excellency a project submitted by me...

The height of the walls in the various observatories, the height of the collectors, and the distance they project from the wall vary largely, and sometimes electrometer, and they sometimes leave hardly a trace on the photographic paper.

The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'

In 1705 Cartesianism was still subject to prohibitions from the authorities; but in a project of new statutes, drawn up for the faculty of arts at Paris in 1720, the Method and Meditations of Descartes were placed beside the Organon and the Metaphysics of Aristotle as text-books for philosophical study.

Flat-bottomed rails are fastened to the sleepers by hookheaded spikes, the heads of which project over the flanges.

This project was not strictly adhered to in Co.

Complex projects can be carried out on multiple continents through project management tools.

It was bad timing with Quinn wrapping up his project.

These rules were borrowed almost word for word from the project drawn up at the Brussels international conference of 1874, which, though never ratified, was practically incorporated in the army regulations issued by the Russian government in connexion with the war of 18 77-7 8.

In 1837-1839, as a Union Democrat, he was a member of the national House of Representatives, and there ably opposed Van Buren's financial policy in spite of the enthusiasm in South Carolina for the sub-treasury project.

At one moment the idea of emancipating all the serfs was entertained, but the project was speedily abandoned, because it would have alienated the nobles - the only class on which Catherine could rely for support.

In the earlier years of American railway building, each project was commonly the subject of a special law; then special laws were in turn succeeded by general railway laws in the several states, and these in turn have come to be succeeded in most parts of the country by jurisdiction vested in the' state railway commission.

After coquetting for a short time with the project of a life of Moliere he decided to follow in the track of his first work with a History of the Conquest of Mexico.

But in March 1848 he set himself with characteristic courage to the accomplishment of the larger project.

From the main pedestal project four buttresses, on which are seated four monolith figures representing Morality, Education, Law, and Freedom.

In his relations with the Slays the emperor displayed the same conciliatory disposition as in the case of the Magyars; but though he more than once held out hopes that he would be crowned at Prague as king of fiohemia, the project was always abandoned.

The Gulfport project reduced freight rates between Gulfport and the Atlantic seaboard cities and promoted the trade of Gulfport, which is the port of entry for the Pearl River customs district.