Definition of project

• n. - The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
• n. - That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
• n. - An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
• v. t. - To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
• v. t. - To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. i. - To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
• v. i. - To form a project; to scheme.