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project | industrial |

In lang=en terms the difference between project and industrial

is that project is an idle scheme; an impracticable design while industrial is belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

As nouns the difference between project and industrial

is that project is a planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages while industrial is an employee in industry.

As a verb project

is to extend beyond a surface.

As an adjective industrial is

of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

project

English

Etymology 1

Noun from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Rogers)
  • projects of happiness devised by human reason
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Prescott)
  • He entered into the project with his customary ardour.
  • (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
  • a man given to projects
  • (obsolete) A projectile.
  • (obsolete) A projection.
  • (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
  • (Holland)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To extend beyond a surface.
  • To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
  • * Spenser
  • Before his feet herself she did project .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
  • To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
  • To make plans for; to forecast.
  • The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
  • * Milton
  • projecting peace and war
  • (reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
  • * 1946 , Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukeee Journal, 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.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms
    * (extend beyond a surface) jut, jut out, protrude, stick out * cast, throw * (extend outward) extend, jut, jut out * forecast, foresee, foretell,

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Shortening of (housing project)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
  • English heteronyms ----

    industrial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
  • Produced by such industry.
  • Used by such industry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
  • , title=Internal Combustion, chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
  • Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
  • Massive in scale or quantity.
  • Employed as manpower by such industry.
  • (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
  • (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
  • Antonyms

    * nonindustrial * unindustrial

    Derived terms

    * industrialism * industrialize * industrially * industrialness * industrial arts * industrial espionage * industrial production * industrial scale * industrial school * industrial strength * industrial tribunal * industrial union

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An employee in industry
  • (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
  • (finance) A bond or stock issued by such company
  • industrial music
  • I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.

    Derived terms

    * Dow Jones Industrial Average