PROJECT (2)

project (2). Project, n. a scheme, plan, contrivance, design

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Pro‐ject″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Projected; p. pr. & vb. n. Projecting.] [[Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter.]] 1. 1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Before his feet herself she did project. Spenser. Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope. 2. 2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
What sit then projecting peace and war? Milton. 3. 3. (Persp.) 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.