Noun: projector
| Singular | projector |
| Plural | projectors |
Sample Sentences
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So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church. [1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:]
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[A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […]. [1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:]
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[…] either the work of the winter storms, or perhaps the victims of some extensive but desultory scheme of denudation, which the projector had not capital or perseverance to carry into full effect. [1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:]
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a depth charge projector
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Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […] [1982, The Gestalt Journal, volume 5, page 44:]
Nouns inflected like projector
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
Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or. See: Latin Nouns '
projector'.
Verbs referencing "projector"
Dutch Nouns
projector, Finnish Nouns
projektori.