PROJECT

vt to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

2. project ·vi to form a project; to scheme.

3. project ·noun the place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

4. project ·noun an idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

5. project ·noun that which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

6. project ·vi to shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

7. project ·vt to cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

8. project ·vt 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.