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.

a. A person who forms a project; one who plans or designs an enterprise or undertaking; a proposer or founder of some venture.

ΘΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

a. An apparatus for projecting a (strong) beam of light for illumination.

ΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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).

单词	projector
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1596
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