Noun: project
| Singular | project |
| Plural | projects |
Sample Sentences
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projects of happiness devised by human reason [a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation:]
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Rainbow, […]came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares [1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22:]
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The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain. [2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
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Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
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Experiments when needles and skin connect / No wonder where we live is called the projects [1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul:]
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Imagine rock up in them projects / Where them niggas pick your pockets [2012, “Money Trees”, in Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, performed by Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock:]
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a man given to projects
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Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing. [2014 October 27, Gabriele Marcotti, “Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more”, in ESPN FC:]
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Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't. [2018 September 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, “Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch”, in WNYT:]
Nouns inflected like project
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
2. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ), прики́дка (prikídka) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)); набро́сок (nabrósok) (akin to броса́ть (brosátʹ)). See: Latin Nouns '
prōiectus'.