project

«project» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of planned work, often done over a period of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a project, projects — PROJ-ect); verb (project, projects, projected, projecting — pro-JECT)

meaning for a pupil

1) A project is a piece of planned work, often done over a period of time, like a school project about volcanoes. tree →

2) A project is a big plan, like building a bridge. tree →

3) To project a picture is to shine it onto a screen or wall. tree →

4) To project something means to stick out beyond an edge. tree →

5) To project your voice is to speak loudly and clearly so people far away hear. tree →

6) To project something means to guess a future number from what is known now. tree →

sense in the lessons

At school, pupils do projects on topics like the Romans or space, research facts, make posters or models and present them. In science, a projector shows images; light travels in straight lines to make the picture. In drama, actors project their voices. In maths, «projected» numbers are estimates. Phrases: «school project», «group project», «work on a project», «project onto», «project your voice».

examples

• Our class project is about the rainforest. tree →
• We made a model volcano for our science project. tree →
• The teacher projected the photos onto the whiteboard. tree →
• A rock projected out from the cliff. tree →
• Project your voice so the back row can hear. tree →
• Building the new bridge is a huge project. tree →
• We worked on a group project together. tree →
• The town projects that the school will need ten more classrooms. tree →
• It was built of red brick, with projecting gables. tree →

note

Stress changes the word: the noun is PRO-ject; the verb is pro-JECT. Noun plural projects. Related: projector (the machine), projection. In UK English the first vowel of the noun is short, like «prodge».

In the corpora

• Bots can hallucinate facts, so every fact in a project must be checked; no volcano has erupted in London.
• Cheating in a group project can hurt the whole team.
• DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again.
• Speaking loudly and clearly enough for the back row matters more than fancy words; this is called projecting your voice.
• "Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projects, favourite schemes in his own area (US).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «project» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.