<B>project, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a plan; scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. Flying in a heavy machine was once thought an impossible project.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an undertaking; enterprise. <BR> <I>Ex. to grant funds for a research project.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a special assignment planned and carried out by a student, a group of students, or an entire class. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S.) a group of apartment buildings built and run as a unit; a housing project. <BR> <I>Ex. Lucretia ... lives in the same project, one flight up (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to plan; scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. The government projected a tax decrease. I projected and drew up a plan for the union (Benjamin Franklin).</I> (SYN) devise, contrive. <DD><B> b. </B>to make a forecast for (something) on the basis of past performance. <BR> <I>Ex. to project a population increase of 20 per cent in ten years.</I> (SYN) foresee, forecast. <DD><B> 2. </B>to throw or cast forward. <BR> <I>Ex. to project a missile into space. A cannon projects shells.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to cause to fall on a surface or into space. <BR> <I>Ex. Motion pictures are projected on the screen. The tree projects a shadow on the grass.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to cause to stick out or protrude. <BR> <I>Ex. to project a pier out into the lake.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to draw lines through (a point, line or figure) and reproduce it on a line, plane, or surface. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Psychology.) to treat as objective and external (what is essentially subjective). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to stick out. <BR> <I>Ex. The rocky point projects far into the water.</I> (SYN) protrude. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) to make plans, especially in an ineffective way. adj. <B>projectable.</B> </DL>
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<B>projectile, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an object that can be thrown, hurled, or shot, such as a stone, spear, or bullet. <BR> <I>Ex. In this chapter we shall discuss the motion of a projectile, such as a baseball or golf ball, a bomb released from a plane, a rifle bullet, or the shell of a gun (Sears and Zemansky).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that can be thrown, hurled, or shot. <BR> <I>Ex. Bullets and arrows are projectile weapons.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>forcing forward; impelling. <BR> <I>Ex. a projectile force.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>that can be thrust forward. <BR> <I>Ex. the projectile jaws of a fish.</I> </DL>
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<B>projection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a part that projects or sticks out. <BR> <I>Ex. rocky projections on the face of a cliff.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or fact of sticking out. <BR> <I>Ex. The projection of that pole out into the hall may cause someone to trip and fall.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act or fact of throwing or casting forward. <BR> <I>Ex. the projection of a shell from a cannon, the projection of motion pictures on a screen.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the representation, upon a flat surface, of all or part of the surface of the earth or the celestial sphere. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Geometry.) the act or fact of projecting a figure, upon a line, plane, or surface. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Figurative.) the act or fact of forming projects or plans. <BR> <I>Ex. The mayor's projections for rebuilding the slum areas of the city have found wide acceptance.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) an estimate of what will happen; forecast made especially on the basis of past performance. <BR> <I>Ex. None of this means that the latest projections are wrong or that a recession is about to start (Wall Street Journal). If the present projections are realized, there will be twice as many people in Latin America as in North America by the year 2000 (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Psychology, Psychiatry.) the treating of what is essentially subjective as objective and external; attributing one's own ideas or feelings to another person or group. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Alchemy.) the casting of the powder of the philosophers' stone upon metal in fusion in order to transmute it into gold or silver. </DL>
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<B>projectional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with projection. </DL>
<B>projectionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the operator of a motion-picture projector. <DD><B> 2. </B>a television cameraman. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who draws a representation, such as a Mercator projection, of a curved surface upon a plane. </DL>
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<B>projection print,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a photographic enlargement made by projecting an image onto a sensitized surface. <BR> <I>Ex. The two common types of photographs are contact prints and projection prints.</I> </DL>
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<B>projection room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a room for the projection of motion pictures. <BR> <I>Ex. The light in the projection room went on ... and there was a pause while the operator loaded a new reel (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>projective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with projection; produced by projection. <DD><B> 2. </B>projecting. adv. <B>projectively.</B> </DL>
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<B>projective geometry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of geometry that deals with those properties of geometric figures that are unchanged after projection. </DL>
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<B>projective technique,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) a method of evaluating personality factors, as by having the individual explain pictures and ink dots and supply dialogue. </DL>
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<B>projectivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the character of being projective, as two plane figures. </DL>
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<B>projector, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an apparatus for projecting an image on a screen. <BR> <I>Ex. a motion-picture projector, a slide projector.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who forms projects; schemer. </DL>
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<B>projet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a plan; project. <DD><B> 2. </B>a draft of a proposed treaty. </DL>
<B>prolactin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hormone from the anterior part of the pituitary gland that induces the mammary glands to give milk and affects the activity of the corpus luteum. </DL>
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<B>prolamin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of simple proteins that are soluble in dilute alcohol but insoluble in water and absolute alcohol, such as gliadin. The prolamins are present in cereals. </DL>
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<B>prolamine, </B>noun. <B>=prolamin.</B></DL>
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<B>prolan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> either of two hormones secreted by the pituitary gland that influence the activity of the gonads. They are present in urine during pregnancy. </DL>
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<B>prolapse, </B>noun, verb, <B>-lapsed,</B> <B>-lapsing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the slipping out of an organ of the body from its normal position. <BR> <I>Ex. a prolapse of the uterus.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (of an organ) to fall; slip out of place. </DL>
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<B>prolapsus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sus.</B> <B>=prolapse.</B></DL>
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<B>prolate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>elongated in the direction of the polar diameter. <BR> <I>Ex. A football is a prolate spheroid. A prolate spheroid is generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>extended or extending in width. </DL>
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<B>prole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a proletarian. </DL>
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<B>proleg, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an abdominal leg of a caterpillar or other larva. </DL>
<B>prolegomenon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-na.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>preliminary material in a book, treatise, or the like; preface; introduction. <BR> <I>Ex. This book ... is consciously designed to serve as the prolegomenon to, and an explanation of, political history (John Kenyon).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a preliminary statement or remark. <BR> <I>Ex. He, after some ambiguous prolegomena, roundly proposed I should go shares with him (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> </DL>
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<B>prolegomenous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with prolegomena. <BR> <I>Ex. It may not be amiss in the prolegomenous or introductory chapter, to say something of that species of writing (Henry Fielding).</I> </DL>
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<B>prolepsis, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ses.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=anticipation.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>anticipation of objections in order to answer them in advance. <DD><B> 3. </B>an epithet in anticipation of its becoming applicable. (Example:) "The murdered king falls by a traitor's hand." <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=anachronism.</B> </DL>
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<B>proleptic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=anticipative.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. A proleptic instinct made him look forward (Eden Philpotts).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>involving prolepsis. adv. <B>proleptically.</B> </DL>
