Project vs Expectation - What's the difference?
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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.
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
That which is expected or looked for.
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, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay,
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
*1816 , (Jane Austen), , Vol.1 Ch.7:
*:Emma was not sorry to be pressed. She read, and was surprized. The style of the letter was much above her expectation . There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer. It was short, but expressed good sense, warm attachment, liberality, propriety, even delicacy of feeling. She paused over it, while Harriet stood anxiously watching for her opinion, with a "Well, well," and was at last forced to add, "Is it a good letter? or is it too short?"
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
(lb) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
(lb) The arithmetic mean.
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Project is a related term of expectation.
As nouns the difference between project and expectation
is that 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 while expectation is the act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.As a verb project
is to extend beyond a surface.project
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
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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.
Synonyms
* (extend beyond a surface) jut, jut out, protrude, stick out * cast, throw * (extend outward) extend, jut, jut out * forecast, foresee, foretell,References
*Etymology 2
Shortening of (housing project)expectation
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Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
