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单词 projector
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projectorn.

Brit. /prəˈdʒɛktə/, U.S. /prəˈdʒɛktər/, /proʊˈdʒɛktər/
Forms: 1500s– projector, 1600s proiector.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin projector ; project v., -or suffix.
Etymology: Partly < post-classical Latin projector person who throws away or rejects (a1215 in a British source), person who throws (early 14th cent. in a British source), person who throws down (1464 in a British source; < classical Latin prōiect- , past participial stem of prōicere project v. + -or -or suffix), and partly directly < project v. + -or suffix.
1.
a. A person who forms a project; one who plans or designs an enterprise or undertaking; a proposer or founder of some venture.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > planner
compassera1513
contrivera1522
deviser1523
muser1556
platformer1572
plotter1589
architect1594
projector1596
machinator1611
designer1653
agitant1665
layer1674
concerter1693
schematist1710
planner1716
schemer1724
schemist1753
strategist1821
strategician1841
strategian1860
programmer1875
programmatist1895
1596 Earl of Essex in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 131 I think the action such as it were disadvantage to be thought the projector of it.
a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 1 in Five New Playes (1659) A hearty blessing on their braines, honours, and wealths, that are Projectors, Furtherers, and Performers of such great works.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. 312 The reasons why the Projectors of the Canon law did forbid to the fourth or to the seventh degree.
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xvii. 481 How happy then, above all worldly Projectors and Designers, are they whose hearts are perswaded to hearken to the Counsel of God.
1714 Boston News-let. 16 Aug. 2/2 Ordered, That the Projectors or Undertakers of any such Bank, do not proceed to Print the said Scheme.., until they have laid their Proposals before the General Assembly.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xlix To desire a Patent granted..to all useful Projectors.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. ix. 92 One of the most common fallacies, by which the superficial projectors of machines for obtaining a perpetual motion have been deluded.
1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 1 The great design of the projectors of this paper.
1884 Law Times 22 Mar. 379/2 The contractors were not paid either by the projector or the company.
1933 H. Walpole Vanessa (1972) iii. ii. 326 A most interesting man—name of Yerkes—the projector of the new electric Underground.
1968 D. D. Gladwin & J. M. White Eng. Canals ii. i. 6 With the earlier canals the engineer was often at the meetings in person to support the projectors' claims.
1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory ix. 538 The best that John Evelyn, a keen projector of a British Eden..felt he could do, was a petting zoo of genteel English creatures like tortoises and squirrels.
b. (In negative sense.) A schemer; a person who lives by his or her wits; a promoter of bogus or unsound business ventures; a cheat, a swindler. Now rare (archaic in later use).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
1615 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 368 She is..much visited by cozeners and projectors, that would fain be fingering her money upon large offers.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse i. vii. 9 in Wks. II Tit. What is a Proiector? I would conceiue. Ing. Why, one Sir, that proiects Wayes to enrich men, or to make 'hem great.
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxxiv. 477 Let not the Projector pretend the publike good, when he intends but to robbe the riche and to cheat the poore.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 20 Intreaguers and Projectors, the very Machiavels of their Age.
1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 470 The Judas, the worldly projector.
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury iv. 37 Those, who..are distinguished by the unfavourable appellation of Projectors.
1801 B. Thompson tr. F. Schiller Robbers iv. 65 Behold the cautious sly projector—foiled at his own weapons.
a1831 R. Whately 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.
1907 F. W. Chandler Lit. Roguery vi. 240 Pug's master is the victim of a more expert rascal, the projector Meercraft, who with his accomplices..plays upon Fitzdottrel's ambition to become Duke of Drownlands.
2. A person who or thing which throws something forwards or onwards; esp. a device for propelling a projectile. Sometimes with defining word, as flame, missile, etc.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > [noun] > propulsion > one who or that which
projicient1645
projector1674
propeller1815
1674 J. Wallis Let. 24 Aug. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 588 Which supposeth projection to be compounded of an uniform motion (impressed from the projector).
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 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.
1915 War Illustr. 4 Sept. 70 German ‘Flammenwerfer’ (flame-projector) in action.
1977 ‘J. D. White’ Salzburg Affair vii. 63 A missile projector, brand new..and still on the secret list.
a1985 P. White With the Jocks (2003) 335 The PIAT team hastily pulled their bombs out of their canisters, cocked their projector, put a bomb in the cradle and pushed their weapon through the hedge.
2000 M. Fletcher Silver Linings (2001) iii. 45 Nautical flare projectors adapted to fire .22 bullets.
3. A person who forecasts or predicts something.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun] > one who forecasts
forecaster1639
prolepsarian1694
anticipator1753
projector1832
dopester1907
1832 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 6 Aug. (1874) I. 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.
1970 Nature 24 Oct. 387/2 He notes how past predictions of population trends have not been incorrect but simply overtaken by changes..which the projectors could not have been expected to foresee.
2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Metro section) 6 It is unfortunate that the economic projectors could not see that the project was doomed to failure when it sprang from the first bankruptcy.
4.
a. An apparatus for projecting a (strong) beam of light for illumination.
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1860 S. Mordecai Virginia (ed. 2) xxxvii. 347 Like a recent and not more successful projector in Washington..Mr. Henfey's light was to shine along the extent of Main street.
1891 Times 28 Sept. 13/5 Projectors used as search lights are destined to play an important part in modern warfare.
1947 B. C. Haynes Techniques Observing Weather iii. 55 The projector is a small searchlight which projects a narrow beam of light of less than 3° spread onto the base of the cloud.
1991 Lighting Dimensions Nov. 135/1 (advt.) We create with our projectors and special light effects magic atmospheres in discos and theaters.
b. An apparatus containing a source of light and a system of lenses for projecting on to a screen an enlargement of an image on a slide, film, or opaque surface. overhead projector: see overhead adv., n., and adj. Compounds.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for projecting image > [noun] > projector
projectora1884
overhead1974
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > other lenses
concave1632
globe1653
meniscus1693
hemispherule1696
convex1705
omphaloptic1728
omphalopter1738
crown lens1764
achromatic1785
condenser1798
meniscus lens1820
Fresnel lens1835
bull's-eye1839
Stanhope lens1850
spot lens1860
amplifier1866
achromat1873
projectora1884
aplanat1890
triplet condenser1892
Aldis lens1902
monocentric1922
Schmidt correcting plate1934
coated lens1948
Panavision1955
Schmidt correcting lens1961
re-imaging1962
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > projecting on to screen > projector
projectora1884
slide projector1956
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 724/2 Projector, a camera with electric, magnesium, or oxyhydrogen light, for throwing an image upon a screen.
1912 Woman's Home Compan. Apr. 28/2 The post-card projector described here burns either oil or acetylene, and may be made at home by anyone at all handy.
1915 W. H. Chantrey Theatre Accts. (ed. 2) 78 Cinematograph projectors should be fitted with two metal film-boxes of substantial construction.
1943 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Aug. 100/2 There were even microbooks in the rocket, with a small pocket-model viewer; there was hardly space for a projector.
1964 M. 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.
1997 Photo Answers Mar. 71/2 You can always focus the projector manually, but an autofocus system snaps each slide into focus for you.
2001 Film Q. Fall 45/1 Pete is illuminated in a darkened theater by the flickering beam of the projector.

Compounds

projector lamp n. a lamp incorporating a reflector for projecting light as a beam in a particular direction.
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1890 Science 21 Feb. 125/1 A powerful light at the bow, inside of a projector lamp capable of throwing the beam to a distance of not less than 4,000 feet in front of the vessel.
1993 Canad. House & Home Oct. 58 (caption) About 30 small halogen projector lamps, all on separate dimmers, speckle the ceiling.
projector man n. a projectionist.
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1927 Observer 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’.
1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 22 Jan. The former dairy farmer, trench digger, silent movie projector man and cane cutter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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