Thesaurus: project

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1. n. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
2. n. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
3. n. An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
4. v. t. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
5. v. t. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
6. v. t. 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.
7. v. i. To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
8. v. i. To form a project; to scheme.
9. n. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
10. n. a planned undertaking
11. v. communicate vividly
12. v. extend out or project in space