Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Project (v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.
(2) - Project (v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
(3) - Project (v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
(4) - Project (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
(5) - Project (v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
(6) - Project (n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
(7) - Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
(8) - Project (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

(1) - Projectile (n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
(2) - Projectile (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
(3) - Projectile (a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
(4) - Projectile (a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.

(1) - Projection (n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
(2) - Projection (n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.
(3) - Projection (n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
(4) - Projection (n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
(5) - Projection (n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.