Homework vs Project - What's the difference?
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Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.
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A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Rogers)
* (and other bibliographic details) (Prescott)
(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
(obsolete) A projectile.
(obsolete) A projection.
(obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
To extend beyond a surface.
To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
To make plans for; to forecast.
* Milton
(reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
* 1946 , Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukeee Journal,
(transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume wrongly qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
Homework is a related term of project.
As nouns the difference between homework and project
is that homework is work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher while project is a planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages or project can be (usually|plural|us) an urban low-income housing building.As a verb project is
to extend beyond a surface.homework
English
(wikipedia homework)Noun
(-)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
Usage notes
The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.Quotations
* (English Citations of "homework")See also
* busy work * schoolworkproject
English
Etymology 1
Noun from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- projects of happiness devised by human reason
- He entered into the project with his customary ardour.
- a man given to projects
- (Holland)
Verb
(en verb)- Before his feet herself she did project .
- Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
- The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
- projecting peace and war
Is Modern Woman a Failure:
- It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.