projects

1. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
2. (usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building.

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

3. An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

   a man given to projects

4. A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
5. A projectile.
6. A projection.
7. The place from which a thing projects.

1. To extend beyond a surface.
2. To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
3. To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
4. To make plans for; to forecast.

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

5. To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
6. To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
7. To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
8. 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.

noun

(usually preceded by the) One or more high-density urban housing developments for residents having low incomes.