project

project is a 7-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 22 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
2. noun. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
3. noun. An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
4. transitive verb. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
5. transitive verb. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
6. transitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
8. intransitive verb. To form a project; to scheme.
9. noun. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

   "he prepared for great undertakings"

   Synonyms: labor, task, undertaking

10. noun. a planned undertaking

    Synonyms: projection

11. verb. present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.

    "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"

    "She proposed a new theory of relativity"

    Synonyms: propose

12. verb. regard as objective

    Synonyms: externalise, externalize

13. verb. communicate vividly

    "He projected his feelings"

14. verb. transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
15. verb. throw, send, or cast forward

    "project a missile"

16. verb. put or send forth

    "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"

    "The setting sun threw long shadows"

    Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw

17. verb. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

    "I can't see him on horseback!"

    "I can see what will happen"

    Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize

18. verb. make or work out a plan for; devise

    "They contrived to murder their boss"

    "design a new sales strategy"

    Synonyms: contrive, design, plan

19. verb. draw a projection of
20. verb. project on a screen

    "The images are projected onto the screen"

21. verb. cause to be heard

    "His voice projects well"

22. verb. extend out or project in space

    "His sharp nose jutted out"

    "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

    Synonyms: jut, protrude

Synonyms

labor, task, undertaking, projection, propose, externalise, externalize, cast, contrive, throw, envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize, design, plan, jut, protrude

Common word forms

projects, projected, projecting, projectable

Words from these letters

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