project1 nounproject2 verb
projectproj‧ect1 /ˈprɒdʒekt $ ˈprɑː-/ ●●● S1 W1 AWL noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINproject1
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin projectum, from the past participle of proicere ‘to throw forward’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a joint US--British research project
- I've been working on the Inner City Development Project for the last five years.
- The project still must be approved by the Board of Supervisors.
- The federal government will help fund this immense project, which includes the building of 150 day-care centers.
- The government scrapped the project after ruling that the costs were too high.
- These are encouraging signs that the ballpark project is moving from blueprint to reality.
- Work on the new freeway project began yesterday.
- Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars.
- Second, you are counting on Donna Davidson and her two project colleagues to champion the change.
- The findings from these projects indicate some of the ways in which girls' performance is produced and evaluated.
- The principal message conveyed by the leadership was that the Three Gorges project had reached the point of no return.
- They also enable you to complete your writing projects and have greater control over your deadlines.
- This is a special project supported and organised by all the Protestant churches in the country.
- While replacement would make retrofitting unnecessary, the first phase of the retrofit project began last September.
Longman Language Activatoran important piece of work
an important piece of work that an organization, group, or person plans carefully in order to achieve a particular aim over a long period of time: · The federal government will help fund this immense project, which includes the building of 150 day-care centers.· The government scrapped the project after ruling that the costs were too high.· I've been working on the Inner City Development Project for the last five years.educational/construction/research etc project: · a joint US--British research project· These are encouraging signs that the ballpark project is moving from blueprint to reality.
an important job that someone is sent to do in another place, especially for a military or political purpose: · He was immediately sent to Paris. His mission was to negotiate a ceasefire.· He volunteered to embark on a dangerous secret mission into occupied France.· a rescue mission to salvage a satellitecombat/military mission: · I flew on over 280 combat missions in two wars, so I'm used to danger.
a big or important job, which you decide or agree to do, and which you will be responsible for: huge/major/big etc undertaking: · In the late 1980s, the US embarked on a major undertaking: the human genome project.· Everybody needs to realise that this is a huge undertaking.· Covering an Olympics is an extraordinary undertaking for any television company.
WORD SETSacademy, nounadvanced, adjectiveAdvanced level, nounA level, nounA/S level, nounassembly, nounbaccalaureate, nounblazer, nounboard, verbboarder, nounboarding school, nounbursar, nouncane, nouncaretaker, nouncarnival, nounchurch school, nounclassroom, nounclasswork, nounCollege Boards, nouncomp, nouncomprehensive school, nounconvent school, nouncorporal punishment, nouncrammer, nounday boy, nounday girl, nounday pupil, nounday school, noundemerit, noundetention, noundictation, noundinner lady, noundiploma, noundomestic science, noundormitory, noundrill, noundrill, verbdriver's education, noundunce, noundunce's cap, nounelementary, adjectiveelementary school, nounfag, nounfeeder school, nounfinishing school, nounform, nounGCE, nounGCSE, noungrade, noungrade school, noungraduate, noungraduate, verbgraduation, noungrammar school, noungrant-maintained, adjectivehead boy, nounhead girl, nounheadmaster, nounheadmistress, nounheadship, nounhead teacher, nounhigh, nounhigh school, nounhome room, nounhomework, nounhonor roll, nounhouse, nounhousemaster, nounhousemistress, nounindustrial arts, nounintermediate school, nounintramural, adjectivejunior, nounjunior high school, nounjunior school, nounlollipop lady, nounmagnet school, nounmake-up, nounmaster, nounmatron, nounmiddle school, nounMilitary Academy, nounminus, adjectivemistress, nounmixed ability, adjectivemonitor, nounmultiplication table, nounO grade, nounold boy, nounold girl, nounO level, nounparochial school, nounPE, nounperiod, nounplus, adjectivepop quiz, nounpractical, nounprefect, nounprep, nounprep, verbpreparatory school, nounpreppy, adjectiveprep school, nounprimary, adjectiveprimary school, nounprimer, nounprivate education, nounprivate school, nounproject, nounPTA, nounPTO, nounpublic school, nounpupil, nounquiz, nounRE, nounrecess, nounreport, nounreport card, nounsatchel, nounschool board, nounschoolboy, nounschoolchild, nounschoolday, nounschool district, nounschoolgirl, nounschool governor, nounschoolhouse, nounschooling, nounschoolkid, nounschool-leaver, nounschoolmaster, nounschoolmate, nounschoolmistress, nounschoolroom, nounschoolteacher, nounschool tie, nounschoolwork, nounsecondary modern, nounsecondary school, nounsemester, nounseminary, nounsenior, nounsenior high school, nounset, nounsex education, nounshop, nounshow and tell, nounsixth form, nounsixth form college, nounsophomore, nounspecial education, nounspecial school, nounspeech day, nounsports day, nounstatement, verbstream, nounstream, verbsubject, nounsubstitute teacher, nounsummer camp, nounsummer school, nounsuperintendent, nounsupply teacher, nounsyllabus, nountermly, adjectivetheme, nountruant, noununit, nounupperclassman, nounupperclasswoman, nounupper school, nounvaledictorian, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + project
She’s now assistant marketing manager for the southeast area. one of our regional managers
· The aim of this research project is to study modern food habits.
· Spending on new construction projects has been reduced.
· Our aim is assess the environmental impact of new development projects.
(=one organized to test if an idea will be successful)· These changes were shelved after pilot projects showed poor results.
· The company is funding a major research project into the causes of addiction.
· Young people often enjoy the challenge of an ambitious project.
· Was the project successful?
verbs· A team has been working on the project for three years.
· I am involved in various projects.
(=organize it)· $30 million would be required to set up the project.
(=start it)· He was embarking on the biggest project of his career.
· The project was completed on time.
project + NOUN· The project manager is responsible for sorting this out.
· The first phase of the project was due to be completed by the end of 2008.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· A conservation programme has been underway since 1980.
· There are always a lot of large construction projects in Dubai.
· the United Nations Development Programme
(=behave in a way that creates a particular image)· He presented an image of himself as an energetic young leader.
· Ask your team leader for advice.
She’s now assistant marketing manager for the southeast area. one of our regional managers· The research project will be funded by the Medical Research Council.
· Every task he undertook was tackled with great determination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Management of a large information project.· However, several may be assigned to large, complex projects, particularly because inspectors specialize in different areas of construction.· The minutes also record two accidents on the site, an astonishingly small number for such a large project.· On a large construction project, for example, the estimating process begins with the decision to submit a bid.· The latter take longer to learn and are intended for those involved in larger, ongoing projects.· The decisionmaking process which propels these large projects is far removed from the intended beneficiaries.· The Commission was attempting by these measures to reduce the past bias towards spending on large infrastructure projects favoured by national governments.· Another, even larger project is in the works just north of Puerto Pe asco.
· Mr Norris said standards applied in reaching the decision were the same as those used for all other major transport infrastructure projects.· Throughout any major development project, there have always been development problems.· Eight schools would be selected, subject to defined criteria, as major project schools.· Linked to any major construction project are men and women with every type of personality, intellect, and qualification.· A programme to trade and dispose of these interests in order to concentrate on major projects and significant new opportunities has already commenced.· He was seeking a post with a major underground rail project.· The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company.· Newcastle has seen a massive £1.4m in major project grant aid for the construction of a new North stand.
· Further expansion through the development of tourism, financial and other services is dependent on the implementation of new projects.· Businesses usually use lines of credit to pay for day-to-day costs, rather than new projects.· If we want to start new projects there will not be much money in the new expenditure.· Her marketing firm represents builders of three dozen major new projects that will open during the first six months of 1996· The most beneficial projects should then be selected until the aggregate resources estimated equal those allocated to new projects in Figure 2.6.· But an intriguing new project awaited him.· There are also exciting new projects which will require assistance; overseas sales, student network and indexing.· The experience at Aswan has many imbedded lessons which could aid planners of new projects.
· No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.· Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.· The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.· Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.· His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.· Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.· Stirling also had a pet project up his sleeve.
NOUN· Many construction projects will involve some element of loan finance.· However, he said there is an open issue of how such a construction project would be financed.· This will be referred to in more detail in connection with recent developments in financing construction projects.· Construction managers plan, budget, and direct the construction project.· A market downturn in rig moves was more than compensated for by a significant increase in supporting offshore construction projects.· On a large construction project, for example, the estimating process begins with the decision to submit a bid.· But even without the construction project, she'd still struggle to crank out prose.
· Further large-scale deforestation is occurring in response to government-sanctioned development projects, many of which involve cash cropping and ranching.· Already, Buss said, talk of the Padres presence has prompted some property owners to map renovation or development projects.· It will assess the environmental impact of new and existing development projects and carry out research and consultancy.· McDougal and his former wife Susan were partners along with the Clintons in the Whitewater land development project in Arkansas.· Others found themselves struggling to plan development projects.· A different but not exclusive approach is to insist upon a conservation element being included in most rural development projects.· Important industrial and development projects were also either postponed or cancelled.· Several examples of assessment frameworks or structures used in a number of research and development projects were given earlier.
· Using project management to help yourself is actually pretty simple.· Even so, the quality of project management is surely open to examination.· The first step in project management is to set a measurable objective.· Success in these ventures results from close project management.· Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.· Essentially the company is a project management operation.· We covered the first, project management.
· How does the project manager organize and supervise the people in the team?· Tom Wesolowski was recently hired by Advanced Engineering to serve as a project manager in the Moorhead office.· Do any help in choosing project managers?· None the less, former project manager Ralph Allen believes he was laid off for speaking up.· To co-ordinate this development, a Next Steps project manager has been appointed.· Hospitals, project managers revealed the findings of samples taken since tunnel toll takers began complaining early last month of noxious odors.· The builder's project manager, Alex Fishface.· My superintendents and project managers deal with the final set of drawings.
· A recent pilot project of social work attachment in general practice has been undertaken recently in Upton on Severn.· A demonstration programme of twenty-eight pilot projects was begun in 1983 with government funding of £19 million until 1988.· The pilot project is being carried out on three forces and an independent evaluation will be completed in the spring of 1992.· Any effective approach needs to build on the wealth of innovative pilot projects and experiments in primary and community health services.· Only a pilot project, he insists, will determine whether or not the technology lives up to suppliers' promises.· Thirty senior class pupils from ten primary schools in the Yarm area will attend a three-day pilot project.· These pilot projects represent in principle a transition phase between research station and the real world.
· The ability to understand the policy implications of research projects is a must.· A calendar of events is a time schedule for carrying out the required tasks of the research project.· We might speculate that those with dementia would be less willing to participate in a research project than the mentally fit.· The interviews were done as part of his five-year research project on strange Arizona phenomena.· This research project focuses on three related aspects of the introduction of protection which have been comparatively neglected.· The client subsequently supported a large-scale action / research project throughout the company.· Special publications report the output of major research projects and staff are encouraged to publish books and journal articles.· The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
· A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with the project team was feasible.· Lynne and I have a project team meeting in the morning.· Take the new catalyst plant at Clitheroe; the whole project team has met unbelievably difficult performance standards.· Chapter 7 contains an evaluation of the test modes used by the project team.· The three remaining suppliers were then visited by Mr Richards and the project team.· Satisfaction and motivation which comes from working as an essential part of a dedicated management team or multi-disciplinary project team.· Now only I remain, over-committed and unable to give the intellectual leadership to the arts project team.
· Mentoring and project work within the sponsoring organisation is a key feature in the development of the individual.· Such difficulties seem worth addressing rather than avoiding by restricting project work to planning in the abstract.· B.Eds were about equally divided between continuous assessment and examinations, with some project work.· As previously argued, beautiful end-products are not in themselves sufficient justification for project work.· Extensive use of the computer in project work opens up the further possibility of a computer-oriented career.· It successfully combines the appeal of project work with the cognitive teaching of grammar.· Gateways are available to online databases such as Profile and Kompass to support project work and research.
VERB· Roads built to service the project are expected to attract slash-and-burn settlers and, possibly, illegal loggers.· Four commissioners favored Community Housing, which has built other projects in the city.· Could schools be built around the project method, in which the tyranny of traditional subjects was loosened?· For now, the Bureau held the authorization to build the project.· Whole towns built around mining projects have been left without a livelihood.· In any large building project three main teams address the three major tasks of design, structural engineering, and mechanical engineering.· The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space.· We have empty apartments in every building of this project.
· Diploma students will complete a more restricted project in June.· Her presence in the completed project adds an unintentional poignance now.· Students complete a research-based project in fourth year under individual staff supervision.· They also enable you to complete your writing projects and have greater control over your deadlines.· It's taken just two years to complete the £60 million project.· Dad may be under particular pressure to complete a project at a time when mom has more slack.· When completed, the project will have brought into being a major research resource for the academic community.· The National Science Foundation, which was footing the bill, decided to hire an independent contractor to complete the project.
· An international committee has been set up to develop the project and call tenders for construction.· The two entered a partnership with Southwest Savings and Loan Association to develop the project.· The region has continued to develop projects to assist professionals working in religious broadcasting.· Part of the delicate art of developing successful projects is to ensure that their community context is supportive.· Bates has formed a joint venture to provide services needed to develop deep water projects.· A relatively small number of questions on percentages was used in the tests developed by the project.· Paul constantly created cross-departmental teams to develop new projects.
· Each volunteer pays an expedition contribution which, taken together, finances the project.· On Tuesday, Brown said he would begin looking for the money to finance the costly project.· The Rotary Club and Civic Society are to be asked to help finance the project.· They are aware that towns sell bonds to finance new projects.· Savings can help finance other Community projects.· When the bonds to finance the project could not be sold, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked up the unfinished task.· Writing tops up his income and finances the rare fish projects.· A developer could use historic preservation credits to finance a project there, he said.
· Landfill tax can be crucial in funding projects that fall outside the guidelines of lottery funding.· However, most foundations and governmental funding agencies will supply a list of recently funded research projects.· Project aid is commonest; by 1989, donors were funding 116 separate projects.· In addition, the Redevelopment Agency has allocated $ 7. 5 million from bond funds for the project.· It also refers to some recent developments in funding public sector projects.· However, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to fund the project.· Other sources of income should be approached for funding individual projects.· A decision on whether to fund the project will be made next spring, as commissioners revise long-term plans.
· Even before First Bull Run they undertook a project calculated to meet the problem.· Students also went on job shadows; visited prisons, jails, courtrooms, and forensics laboratories; and undertook community-service projects.· In the first, suppose the firm is undertaking a particular project.· Groups seem to be most successful when undertaking tangible projects, as Black Mountain was when building its second campus.· Students will also undertake substantial projects during this year.· Remember the New Testament warning, before you undertake a project, be sure to count the cost.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a carefully planned piece of work to get information about something, to build something, to improve something etc: - But from the start, feature animation was a collaborative effort.
- Combined with virtual reality capabilities, the team can design its own ideal collaborative work space without the constraints of physical reality.
- One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work.
- Since their Nobel lectures describe one collaborative effort, I suggest that we listen to them without interruption.
- The activities would demand collaborative work, role allocation and sharing.
- The early deadline gave little time for meetings and collaborative effort, or a very considered response to the new timetabling arrangements.
- The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
- When it came time for his second album, he decided to make it a collaborative effort.
- Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
- Different chemists prefer different pet theories, and there is no shortage of theories.
- Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
- Even those Hippocratic treatises which inveigh against Presocratic dogmatism are themselves just as dogmatic where their own pet theories are concerned.
- His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
- Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
- No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
- The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
- A pilot study is being carried out with Manchester University.
- Olmsted saw Niagara as a pilot project for a larger and more ambitious campaign.
- Schools are being invited to put forward their brightest pupils to do the tests as part of the pilot scheme.
- The pilot scheme bid backed in principle by the committee yesterday is proposed for Darlington and Durham.
- The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.
- The Environmental Defense Fund brokered a series of pilot projects in Juarez, including one to test vehicle emissions.
- Under a pilot scheme multinationals have been allowed to issue their own work permits to foreign staff.
- With modest resources, the Agriculture Department is introducing the new technologies to growers in a handful of pilot projects nationwide.
The project aims to provide an analysis of children’s emotions. a three-year research project The scheme will now be extended after a successful pilot project (=a small trial to test if an idea will be successful).project to do something a project to develop a substitute for oil The project is funded by Wellcome plc. a project manager2a part of a school or college course that involves careful study of a particular subject over a period of timeproject on We’re doing a project on pollution. a geography project3 (also the projects American English informal) a housing projectCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + projecta research project· The aim of this research project is to study modern food habits.a construction project· Spending on new construction projects has been reduced.a development project· Our aim is assess the environmental impact of new development projects.a pilot project (=one organized to test if an idea will be successful)· These changes were shelved after pilot projects showed poor results.a major project· The company is funding a major research project into the causes of addiction.an ambitious project· Young people often enjoy the challenge of an ambitious project.successful· Was the project successful?verbswork on a project· A team has been working on the project for three years.be involved in a project· I am involved in various projects.set up a project (=organize it)· $30 million would be required to set up the project.embark on a project (=start it)· He was embarking on the biggest project of his career.complete a project· The project was completed on time.project + NOUNa project manager/leader· The project manager is responsible for sorting this out.a phase/stage of a project· The first phase of the project was due to be completed by the end of 2008.project1 nounproject2 verb
projectpro‧ject2 /prəˈdʒekt/ AWL verb WORD ORIGINproject2
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of proicere; ➔ PROJECT1VERB TABLE
project
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | project |
| he, she, it | projects | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | projected |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have projected |
| he, she, it | has projected | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had projected |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will project |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have projected |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am projecting |
| he, she, it | is projecting | |
| you, we, they | are projecting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was projecting |
| you, we, they | were projecting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been projecting |
| he, she, it | has been projecting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been projecting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be projecting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been projecting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A computer image of an eyeball was projected onto a screen on stage.
- Kirk doesn't realize how arrogant an image he projects.
- School officials are projecting a rise in student numbers next semester.
- The pier would be 1000 metres long and project about 400 metres into the sea.
- Two walkways projected over the gorge on both sides of the river.
- By the end of this fiscal year in June, maritime operations are projected to lose $ 6. 4 million.
- Examining past, present, and projected student enrollments in one district, the school board voted to dismiss four teachers.
- He thus asserts the Truth of History while constantly projecting forwards and deferring its proof.
- It is projected to hit $ 1. 17 billion in 1996 sales, nipping at the heels of Sega and Nintendo.
- Lastly it is worth noting any usual features like sunken logs, projecting tree roots and big boulders.
- Modernism has projected a compelling image of the artist in a state of splendid isolation.
- These projected rooms also had to be able to accommodate existing pieces of furniture.
THESAURUS
formal to find out an amount, price, or value by adding numbers together: · The students calculated the cost of printing 5000 copies of their book.
to calculate something. Work out is less formal than calculate, and is more common in everyday English: · You need to work out how much you will need to borrow.
(also figure American English) informal to calculate an amount: · We still haven't figured out how much it's all going to cost.· the method for figuring welfare payments
to find out the total number of things or people in a group by looking at each one and adding them all together: · The teacher counted the children as they got on the bus.
(also total up) to add a number of things together to get a final number: · Once the scores have been totaled, we will announce the winner.· Okay, now let's total up who had the most points.
formal to say how much something costs, how much of it there is, how serious or effective it is etc: · I think it's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment, for a variety of reasons.· How do you quantify the benefits of the treatment?· a reliable method for quantifying the amount of calcium in the blood
formal to calculate what the value or cost of something is, or decide how good, bad etc something is: · The value of the paintings was assessed at $20 million.· They are still assessing the damage.· We need to have a better way of assessing students' progress.
to guess an amount, price, or number as exactly as you can, based on the knowledge you have: · The police department estimates that the number of violent crimes will decrease by 2%.
to say what you think the exact total amount or value of something is, especially when it is a lot: · It's hard to put a figure on it, but the final cost is likely to be over £225 million.· The company has refused to put a figure on its losses.
to calculate what an amount will be in the future, using the information you have now: · The company projects sales of $4 million this year.
to say that something will happen, before it happens: · In the future, it may be possible to predict earthquakes.· Scientists are trying to predict what the Amazon will look like in 20 years' time.
to say what is likely to happen in the future, especially in relation to the weather or the economic or political situation: · They’re forecasting a hard winter.· Economists forecast that there would be a recession.
to say what the amount, size, cost etc of something is likely to be in the future, using the information you have now: · The world’s population is projected to rise by 45%.
especially spoken be able to know what will happen in the future: · No one can say what the next fifty years will bring.· I can’t say exactly how much it will cost.
to say correctly what will happen in the future, using special religious or magical powers: · The woman claimed that she had the gift of foretelling the future.· It all happened as the prophet had foretold.
to say that something will happen because you feel that it will, or by using special religious or magical powers: · He’s one of those people who are always prophesying disaster.· The coming of a great Messiah is prophesied in the Bible.· He prophesied that the world would end in 2012.· Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself.
to know that something is going to happen before it happens: · They should have foreseen these problems.· No one foresaw the outcome of the war.
to have a strange feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, usually just before it happens: · Suddenly I had a strange premonition of danger ahead.
Longman Language Activatorexpressing your ideas clearly and well to make your feelings or thoughts clear to others, especially by talking or writing about them: · The course is designed to enable people to communicate effectively in speech and writing.· She's clever, but she can't communicate her ideas.communicate with: · Many parents find it difficult to communicate with their teenage sons or daughters.
to make your feelings or thoughts about something known clearly, so that other people are able to understand: · The children were encouraged to express themselves freely and openly.express yourself in: · Payne also expresses himself in poetry, which he began writing in college.express yourself in words/writing: · I find it hard to express myself in writing.
able to talk or write easily and effectively about what you think and feel: · He is handsome, confident and articulate, like many of the students at this college.· You have to be articulate to be good at debating.
expressing ideas and feelings in very clear, beautiful language, especially in a way that persuades people to agree with you, or fully understand what you are saying: · She was an eloquent speaker, able to move and inspire audiences.· The poem is full of eloquent phrases about the beauty of nature.· Few will forget his eloquent defence of individual freedom.
showing very clearly what a person thinks or feels: expressive eyes/face/eyebrows/features/voice/hands etc: · She is a wonderful actress, with striking, expressive features.· He had a quiet but expressive voice.
to express what you think or feel in a confident way that other people admire: · Sam projects himself well -- he should stand a good chance in the interview.· Your problem is presentation -- you don't project yourself very well.
something that someone predicts will happen a statement saying what you think will happen in the future: · Despite their confident predictions, sales of the new car have not been very good.make a prediction: · It's too early to make any predictions about the election results.
a public statement saying what is likely to happen with the weather or with the economic or political situation, based on special or technical knowledge: the weather forecast (=a statement in a newspaper, or on the TV or radio, saying what the weather will be like during the next few days): · According to the weather forecast, it's going to stay hot for the rest of the week.give/make a forecast: · It is impossible to give an accurate forecast of company sales 10 years from now.
a statement that says something will happen, especially made by someone with religious or magical powers: prophecy of: · The old woman's prophecies of disaster were soon fulfilled.prophecy that: · Lij Yasu was never crowned, possibly because he believed a prophecy that if he became king he would die.· Amazingly, the manager's prophecy that the team would get into the first division seems to be coming true.
formal the likely result of a process such as an illness or a series of events that has already started: · Well, doctor, what's the prognosis?· By the early 1990s the prognosis for Communism wasn't at all good.
showing what someone thinks will happen in the future: · More than a century after Marx, the predicted dissolution of capitalism has still not taken place.· There were several arrests for disorderly behaviour, but for the most part the much-predicted violence did not materialize.
: projected figures/sales/profits/results the profits, sales etc that a business expects to achieve considering past and present performance: · Next year's projected sales are 5% higher than this year's.· The company's losses look likely to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project.
to stick out to stick out from a surface or through an opening: · The fridge door won't shut because there's something sticking out.· His large ears stuck out almost at right angles.stick out of/from/through etc: · A neatly folded handkerchief was sticking out of his jacket pocket.· A pair of skis stuck out through the car window.
to stick out and point upwards: · His hair was white, and stuck up in tufts on his head.· Can you see that branch that's sticking up?stick up from/through/out of etc: · He saw a hand sticking up through the snow. · A church steeple stuck up above the roofs of the surrounding cottages.
formal to stick out, especially to stick out further than is usual or expected: protrude from/through/into etc: · I noticed a metal pipe protruding from the wall.· The largest stone can be seen protruding above the level of the river.· She injured herself on a screw that protruded 2 inches out of the bench.
if something juts out , for example a piece of land or a part of a building, it sticks out sharply and in a way that is very noticeable: jut out from/of/through etc: · Our guide led us to where a flat rock juts out from the side of the cliff.· a slim piece of land jutting out into the Gulf of Mexicojut 2 feet/100 metres etc out: · Our rafts floated downstream towards the icebergs, which jutted 30 feet out of the water.
if part of something pokes out , it sticks out or sticks up and can be seen, while the rest of it is covered: poke out of/from/through etc: · I looked across the street and saw Mike's head poking out above the fence.· The first snowdrops poked out through the frozen ground.
if something bulges , it sticks out more than usual in a rounded shape : · His cheeks bulged, and his face turned purple with rage.bulge out/from/through etc: · Father's face was flushed, and his eyes bulged out.bulge with: · Her purse bulged with keys, cigarettes, scraps of paper, and old receipts.
formal if part of a building, mountain, or other very large object projects somewhere, it sticks out in that direction: project into/over/from/through etc: · Two walkways projected over the gorge on both sides of the river.· The pier would be 1000 metres long and project about 400 metres into the sea.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I hope the team will project a smart professional image.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She’s now assistant marketing manager for the southeast area. one of our regional managers
I hope the team will project a smart professional image.· A conservation programme has been underway since 1980.
· There are always a lot of large construction projects in Dubai.
· the United Nations Development Programme
(=behave in a way that creates a particular image)· He presented an image of himself as an energetic young leader.
· Ask your team leader for advice.
She’s now assistant marketing manager for the southeast area. one of our regional managers· The research project will be funded by the Medical Research Council.
· Every task he undertook was tackled with great determination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· The president began with a budget that projected deficits of $ 200 billion through the end of the decade.
· Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation, based on experience, of what will happen.· Expositions and congresses projected a future wherein human aspirations would be realized through the wonders of technology.· One study conducted in 1980 examined seven economic-demographic models constructed to project the future of food and resource supplies and pollution levels.· Deciphering the true history of that era is perhaps no longer possible, but projecting the future is another matter.
· It projected global economic growth in 1992 at 1.4 percent.· Technological gains and slower projected growth in energy-intensive industries will restrain the rate of increase, the department says.· These regions have similar inflation outlooks, low-cost labor and projected growth rates two to four times our own growth rate.
· When you project an image, you project an intensified version of the original.· This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move.· An image is projected on to the retina.· From the first sight, what struck me was the image he projected.· The image you are projecting for your campaign will not be confined to people.· The image you project in print is important.
· Their known and projected populations are given in Table 1.· Demographers project that its population will double in size within a generation.
· Now DeCicco can project his voice, balance better and use his hands.· There are innumerable books on public speaking, dealing with everything from how to project your voice to what to wear.· The use of the microphone helped to project her voice.
VERB· Does it reflect the image of the caring school that we are trying to project?
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1calculate [transitive] to calculate what something will be in the future, using the information you have now: - The ambassador's visit is projected to take place in June.
- Business Internet Services is projected to grow to $ 56.6 billion in 2003, from $ 7.7 billion in 1999.
- Employment of general managers and top executives is projected to decline in manufacturing industries overall.
- Global demand is projected to double over the next 30 years as population increases and living standards improve.
- Hospital profits on such cases are projected at 7. 9 percent for 1996.
- It is projected to hit $ 1. 17 billion in 1996 sales, nipping at the heels of Sega and Nintendo.
- It is projected to remain at around this level for more recent generations of women.
- It is at this point that Todorov's' classicism, is projected towards postmodernism.
- There are projected outlets, too, for new, high-purity silicates currently being developed for applications in high technology.
- Now DeCicco can project his voice, balance better and use his hands.
- The use of the microphone helped to project her voice.
- There are innumerable books on public speaking, dealing with everything from how to project your voice to what to wear.
- But from the start, feature animation was a collaborative effort.
- Combined with virtual reality capabilities, the team can design its own ideal collaborative work space without the constraints of physical reality.
- One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work.
- Since their Nobel lectures describe one collaborative effort, I suggest that we listen to them without interruption.
- The activities would demand collaborative work, role allocation and sharing.
- The early deadline gave little time for meetings and collaborative effort, or a very considered response to the new timetabling arrangements.
- The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
- When it came time for his second album, he decided to make it a collaborative effort.
- Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
- Different chemists prefer different pet theories, and there is no shortage of theories.
- Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
- Even those Hippocratic treatises which inveigh against Presocratic dogmatism are themselves just as dogmatic where their own pet theories are concerned.
- His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
- Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
- No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
- The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
- A pilot study is being carried out with Manchester University.
- Olmsted saw Niagara as a pilot project for a larger and more ambitious campaign.
- Schools are being invited to put forward their brightest pupils to do the tests as part of the pilot scheme.
- The pilot scheme bid backed in principle by the committee yesterday is proposed for Darlington and Durham.
- The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.
- The Environmental Defense Fund brokered a series of pilot projects in Juarez, including one to test vehicle emissions.
- Under a pilot scheme multinationals have been allowed to issue their own work permits to foreign staff.
- With modest resources, the Agriculture Department is introducing the new technologies to growers in a handful of pilot projects nationwide.
The company projected an annual growth rate of 3%. projected sales figuresbe projected to do something Total expenditure is projected to rise by 25%.2stick out [intransitive] to stick out beyond an edge or surface SYN protrudeproject out/from/through etc Four towers projected from the main building. projecting teeth3film [transitive] to make the picture of a film, photograph etc appear in a larger form on a screen or flat surfaceproject something onto something She projected the slide onto the wall.4yourself [transitive] to try to make other people have a particular idea about you: I hope the team will project a smart professional image.project yourself (as something) his attempts to project himself as a potential leader5plan be projected to be planned to happen in the future: the projected closure of the hospital► see thesaurus at predict6project your voice to speak clearly and loudly so that you can be heard by everyone in a big room7send [transitive] to make something move up or forwards with great force: The plant projects its seeds over a wide area.8success [transitive] to make someone quickly have success or a much better jobproject somebody into/onto etc something His success projected him onto Channel 4‘s comedy series ’Packet of Three'.9feeling [transitive] to imagine that someone else is feeling the same emotions as youproject something on/onto somebody You’re projecting your insecurity onto me.