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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#m1)

2) A project is a big plan, like building a bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#m2)

3) To project a picture is to shine it onto a screen or wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#m3)

4) To project something means to stick out beyond an edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#m4)

5) To project your voice is to speak loudly and clearly so people far away hear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#m5)

6) To project something means to guess a future number from what is known now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#m6)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x1)
- We made a model volcano for our science project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x2)
- The teacher projected the photos onto the whiteboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x3)
- A rock projected out from the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x4)
- Project your voice so the back row can hear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x5)
- Building the new bridge is a huge project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x6)
- We worked on a group project together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x7)
- The town projects that the school will need ten more classrooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x8)
- It was built of red brick, with projecting gables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/14/)
- [Cheating in a group project can hurt the whole team.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/17/)
- [DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/12/)
- [Speaking loudly and clearly enough for the back row matters more than fancy words; this is called projecting your voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/8/)
- ["Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projects, favourite schemes in his own area (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «project» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/project/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.