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projector|prəʊˈdʒɛktə(r)|
[a. L. type *prōjector, agent-n. f. prōjicĕre to project: see -or. In F. projeteur (18th c. in Littré).]
1. a. One who forms a project, who plans or designs some enterprise or undertaking; a founder.
1596Earl of Essex in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. IV. 131, I think the action such as it were disadvantage to be thought the projector of it. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 428 How happy, then, above all worldly projectors and designers, are they whose hearts are persuaded to hearken to the counsel of God. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. Introd. 49 To desire a Patent granted..to all useful Projectors. 1841Miall in Nonconf. I. 1 The great design of the projectors of this paper. 1884Law Times 22 Mar. 379/2 The contractors were not paid either by the projector or the company.
b. In invidious use: A schemer; one who lives by his wits; a promoter of bubble companies; a speculator, a cheat.
1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass i. vii, Tit. What is a Proiector? I would conceiue. Ing. Why, one Sir, that proiects Wayes to enrich men, or to make 'hem great. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxxiv. 477 Let not the Projector pretend the publike good, when he intends but to robbe the riche and to cheat the poore. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 138 The women..think us still either projectors or conjurers. 1724R. Welton Chr. Faith & Pract. 470 The Judas, the worldly projector. 1787Bentham Def. Usury iv. 37 Those, who..are distinguished by the unfavourable appellation of Projectors. 1827Whately Logic in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 222/1 The Sophist proceeds on the hypothesis that he who forms a project must be a projector; whereas the bad sense that commonly attaches to the latter word, is not at all implied in the former.
2. One who or that which projects or throws something forward.
1674Wallis in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 588 Which supposeth projection to be compounded of an uniform motion (impressed from the projector). 1892Pall Mall G. 17 Nov. 7/2 Automatic railway fog-signal apparatus..a box which contains the explosive cartridges or signals, and a projector which automatically places them on the rail.
3. One who forecasts.
1832Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. (1874) I. 32 We confident projectors of the people's avidity to vote are a little mortified at their registering more slowly than we boasted they would.
4. a. An apparatus for projecting rays of light; a parabolic reflector or a combination of lenses.
1887Daily News 15 Oct. 6/1 The electric light will be employed on both sides of the harbour, each of the four projectors displaying a light of over two thousand candle power. 1891Times 28 Sept. 13/5 Projectors used as search lights are destined to play an important part in modern warfare. 1893Voice (N.Y.) 14 Sept., The reflecting lens mirror used in this projector is..60 inches in diameter.
b. An apparatus containing a source of light and a system of lenses for projecting on to a screen an enlargement of an image or a slide, film, or opaque surface.
1884in Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1912F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures 135 In colour work the projector requires a special type of shutter. 1915W. H. Chantrey Theatre Accounts (ed. 2) 78 Cinematograph projectors should be fitted with two metal film-boxes of substantial construction. 1926Encycl. Brit. II. 961/2 In June 1895 Thomas Armat of Washington..arrived at the principle of the modern projector, a device in which the film, moving intermittently, has periods of rest and illumination in large excess of the period of movement. 1962Movie Oct. 12/3 The flickering blue light of the projector in the viewing theatre sequence. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) xxix. 311 The present dissociation of projector and screen is a vestige of our older mechanical world of..separation of functions. 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 312 Projectors for 35 mm transparencies and smaller are now usually magazine loaded.
5. Comb., as projector lamp, projector-man.
1962Which? Mar. 74/1 Projector lamps are expensive. 1972Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) iv. iii. 15 Projector lamp, lamp in which the luminous element is so mounted that the lamp may be used with an optical system projecting the light in chosen directions.
1927Observer 17 Apr. 3 The picture is..‘ridden in’—that is, the orchestra work up to an appropriate climax, and at a given bar the projector-man ‘makes his throw’.
Hence proˈjectress, proˈjectrix, a female projector; also Geom.: see quot. 1890.
1709Swift Tatler No. 32 ⁋4 A Lady who..was the Projectrix of the Foundation. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths xvii. 209 ‘It is extremely pretty’ said Vere to the projectress and protectress of it all. 1890Cent. Dict., Projectrix, a curve derived from another curve by composition of projections. |