Meaning

• A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

• (usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building.

  "Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished."

• An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

  "a man given to projects"

• A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

• A projectile.

• A projection.

• The place from which a thing projects.

Meaning

• To extend beyond a surface.

• To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

• To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

• To make plans for; to forecast.

  "The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007."

• To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

• To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

• To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

• To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.