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to project

to project

27 4.1
To make your voice or emotion clear to others
  • verb
  • /prəˈdʒɛkt/
translation icon : proyectar
  • So people are continually judging you based on the appearance that you project out there, right?
  • project your voice
  • project a confident persona
  • project personality

What's the energy that you're projecting in this discussion?

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Examples

  • In order to be successful one must project an image of success at all times.

  • In order to connect with her audience, she needed to project her enthusiasm during the presentation.

  • And so he had to sort of project confidence and imagine your way out of this thing.

  • And you really have to project that strength.

  • You want to start a business, you have to project a certain image.

  • Is that the image you want to project?

  • I can't help it if my natural swagger projects a sense of confidence.

  • What's the energy that you're projecting in this discussion?

  • He tried to project a sense of authority, but his nervousness was evident.

  • The actor worked hard to project the character's emotions, making the audience feel every moment of the performance.

Antonyms

1.0

To keep something so others cannot see or understand it

88 5.8

To hold back feelings or reactions

Idioms

To care a lot about a project and work hard to make it succeed

Phrasal Verbs

Complete all the work needed for a task

To stop work on a project for a time until things change

To help a project make progress by leading and taking action

Allow a project to continue without making changes

To stop work on a project for a time and start it again later

8.8

Delay a project to work on more important tasks

Find out how much work and time a project needs before it starts

To make the way people plan and do projects simpler and faster

To start work again on a project that was paused or stopped

Compounds

A planned study to answer scientific or academic questions

29 2.6

A group of homes or apartment buildings that the government builds and runs for low-income families

Work planned to build or fix buildings and roads

14 2.1

A large, important task that takes a lot of time and effort

Secret United States project during World War II that developed the first atomic bombs

A small test of a new plan or system in a few places to see if it works

Human Genome Project
  • Specialized
5 3.7

An international project by scientists that maps all human genes

A plan to manage rivers and lakes, like building a dam or irrigation system

A large, fast project carefully planned to solve a big technical or social problem

1 3.4

A file on a computer that holds information about a specific project

1 6.8

A US space program in 1965 and 1966 that sends people into orbit to test ways for Apollo Moon missions

A planned work to make or improve a garden

project budget
  • Specialized
1 3.1

A plan showing how much money a project needs and where it will be spent

1 3.6

A person who leads a team working on a particular task

1 5.9

The first American program to send a person into orbit around Earth

A job to make things from wood like a table or shelf

A very large, difficult project that needs a lot of time and many people

A final project that shows what a student learned in a course or program

A school task students do together that needs research or creative work

A project to clean away dirt and clutter from a place

fuckity project
  • Offensive
9.9

A project that keeps causing problems and making people annoyed

A task that you do outside, often about building or gardening

9.9

A government project that people think wastes money, often in a spending bill

8.3

A project that restores damaged sea areas like coral reefs or seagrass beds

A project that fails before it starts

9.5

A project to repair and improve a badly damaged building

How Clear

to radiate
15 4.0
to project
27 4.1
to express
2.3
to hint
136 2.0

Surface Forms

project infinitive
projected past
projected past participle
projecting present participle
projects third person singular

Morphology

project = pro + ject

The sense of making a voice, emotion, or quality noticeable is a figurative extension and is not derivable from ordinary meanings of recognizable English parts.

Etymology

Project comes from old Latin parts pro- ('forward') and ject ('throw'), so to project your voice is like 'throwing' your sound forward so people can hear it. That's why actors learn to project on stage.