to project
- verb
- /prəˈdʒɛkt/
- We project a certain story onto the world.
So we just have to try ideas, make them rigorous, make them precise, and then project them back into our headset.
- So we just have to try ideas, make them rigorous, make them precise, and then project them back into our headset.
- It tells you how to take stuff you know about the individual atoms and project it on the thing that communicates with the outside world.
Examples
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The use of a scenario in this study was designed to allow students the freedom to project their thoughts and feelings related to trauma and bullying without having to consider the social and personal implications of their responses.
Academic text (2008) -
Their extensive audience attests to the poets' success in interpreting and projecting the complexity of deeply felt and widely shared beliefs, attitudes, and emotions of their times.
Academic text (1993) -
While we're making these observations... ...you two project this image of the perfect couple, when clearly it's a lie.
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A significant difference in the scores of the two populations, however, occurred with questions that asked the students to project their understanding into the future:
Academic text (1999) -
Dean has already projected this mode of language into Sal.
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And that's not the image this firm wants to project.
Academic text (2007) -
Today, we project ourselves into a far wider variety of computational landscapes.
Academic text (1997) -
Our ability to project and mold our future selves from the myriad possibilities before us.
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The current and projected prevalence of obesity indicates that both prevention and management strategies are needed.
Academic text (2018) -
In her presentation, she aimed to project her ideas about climate change onto a global scale.
Synonyms
To move someone, a plant, or an idea to a new place
To share ideas between different fields to create new ways or solutions
Mixing ideas from different fields to create new or better results
Share ideas from different groups to make something new
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Compounds
A group of homes or apartment buildings that the government builds and runs for low-income families
Secret United States project during World War II that developed the first atomic bombs
- Specialized
An international project by scientists that maps all human genes
A large, fast project carefully planned to solve a big technical or social problem
A US space program in 1965 and 1966 that sends people into orbit to test ways for Apollo Moon missions
- Specialized
A plan showing how much money a project needs and where it will be spent
- Slang
A government project that people think wastes money, often in a spending bill
- Specialized
A project that restores damaged sea areas like coral reefs or seagrass beds
How Broad
- US
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Project comes from old Latin parts pro- ('forward') and ject ('throw'), so to project an idea onto another field is like 'throwing' its meaning into a new place. That's why we speak of projecting concepts from one area onto another.