Other forms: projects, projected, projecting
A project is a bigger piece of work that takes days or weeks to finish. A school project, run a project, project deadline.
It has a beginning, an end and a defined goal, which is what separates it from ordinary continuing work. Project management is a discipline built on that distinction. As a verb, with the stress on the second syllable, to project means to throw forward — projecting an image, projecting a figure for next year, projecting your voice. Note projector, projection.
1nounprojectA bigger piece of work with a defined goal and an end.
“Our class project on local history has to be finished by June.”
2verbthrowTo throw forward, an image or an estimate.
“The teacher projected the photos onto a big screen.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
project is a piece of work.
Latin proiectus is the participle of proicere, to throw forth — pro plus iacere, to throw. Eject, inject and trajectory come from the same throwing.
Latin
prōiectus
English, today
project
Built from
Borrowed from Latin prōiectus. From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”). Compare typologically прики́дывать, прики́дка (akin to кида́ть); набро́сок (akin to броса́ть).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA