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单词 project
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projectnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈprɒdʒ.ekt/us/ˈprɑː.dʒekt/

B2 a piece of planned work or an activity that is finished over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular purpose:

the Kings Cross housing project
a scientific research project
Her latest project is a film based on the life of a 19th-century music hall star.
My next project is decorating the kitchen.

A2 a study of a particular subject done over a period of time, especially by students:

He's doing a class project on pollution.
In our third year at college everyone had to do a special project.

More examples

  • The government has given the go-ahead for a multi-billion-pound road-building project.
  • The cost of the project has increased dramatically since it began.
  • A large portion of the company's profit goes straight back into new projects.
  • Has she had any experience of managing large projects?
  • I want to thank you all for the time and energy you have put into this project, and for your part in making it such a success.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Plans and arrangements

  • appointed
  • arrangement
  • blueprint
  • bottom-up
  • campaign
  • card
  • formulate
  • game plan
  • have a card up your sleeve idiom
  • intention
  • itinerary
  • lock
  • package deal
  • party line
  • planning
  • policy-making
  • preparation
  • programme
  • road map
  • specification

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Classes & courses

projectverb

uk/prəˈdʒekt/us/prəˈdʒekt/

project verb (CALCULATE)

[ T usually passive ] to calculate an amount or number expected in the future from information already known:

[ + to infinitive ] Government spending is projected to rise by three percent next year.

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Calculations & calculating

  • aggregate
  • algorithm
  • amount
  • amount to sth
  • average
  • come to sth
  • commutative
  • computational
  • compute
  • equate
  • figure
  • get/have your sums right/wrong idiom
  • grand total
  • guesstimate
  • instantaneous velocity
  • miscalculate
  • operation
  • projected
  • put sth at sth
  • result

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project verb (THROW)

[ T ] to throw or direct something forwards, with force:

90 percent of the projected missiles will hit their target.
project your voice

to sing or speak loudly and clearly:

It's a big theatre so you really have to project your voice if you're going to be heard at the back.

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Throwing

  • cast
  • chuck
  • fling
  • heave
  • hurl
  • overhand
  • peg
  • pelt
  • pitch
  • precipitate
  • projectile
  • sling
  • slung
  • stone
  • throw
  • throw-in
  • thrown
  • toss
  • underarm
  • underhand

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Ways of talking

project verb (MAKE AN IMAGE)

[ T ] to cause a film, image, or light to appear on a screen or other surface:

Laser images were projected onto a screen.

[ T ] specialized psychology to wrongly imagine that someone else is feeling a particular emotion or desire when in fact it is you who feels this way:

I suspect he's projecting his fears onto you.

[ T ] If you project a particular quality, that quality is what most people notice about you:

Recently the president has sought to project a much tougher image.

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Photography

  • airbrush
  • aperture
  • camera
  • camera obscura
  • camera-shy
  • capture
  • exposure
  • high-resolution
  • hologram
  • holography
  • kinetoscope
  • lo-res
  • say cheese idiom
  • selfie
  • sharp
  • shoot
  • shutter
  • slide
  • SLR camera
  • snapshot

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Cinema - general words
Empathy and sensitivity
Showing and demonstrating

project verb (STICK OUT)

[ I + adv/prep ] to stick out over an edge or from a surface:

The hotel dining room projects out over the water.

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Protruding and sticking out

  • bristle
  • bulbous
  • bulge
  • jut
  • ledge
  • male
  • outcrop
  • overhang
  • peek
  • poke
  • projection
  • protrude
  • protrusion
  • protuberance
  • protuberant
  • proud
  • stick
  • stick (sth) out
  • stick out
  • stick up

projectnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈprɒdʒekt/us

a piece of planned work or an activity which is done over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular purpose:

The date for starting the project will be set once financing is completed.
set up/launch a project They set up the research project with help from the university.
fund/pay for/finance a project Two local businesses funded the project.
manage/run a project
complete/finish a project
a joint/large/major project
a building/construction/development project

See also

capital project
greenfield project

projectverb [ T ]

uk/prəʊˈdʒekt/us

ECONOMICS, FINANCE to calculate an amount or number expected in the future from information already known:

The amount was less than we had projected.
The state is projecting a $275 million shortfall for the rest of the fiscal year.
be projected (to do sth) Growth rate is projected for five years.
The deficit is projected to rise to $17 million next year.
The project controller said the highway was currently seeing between 20,000 and 24,000 vehicles a day, fewer than the 26,000 originally projected.
The review projects that gas could end up accounting for more than 50% of generating supply by 2020.

to plan for sth to happen or expect sth to happen:

be projected to do sth The work is projected to start in November.

to make other people see or feel a particular quality or idea in the way you behave:

The candidate projects supreme confidence in his own views and abilities.
He was told that arriving in his Rolls-Royce might project the wrong image .

COMMUNICATIONS to cause an image to appear on a screen or surface using a projector:

project sth on/onto sth The digital video will be projected on a huge I-MAX screen.
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