Project vs Place - What's the difference?
project | place |
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.
(label) An area; somewhere within an area.
# A location or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* , chapter=5
, title= #* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# An open space, courtyard, market square.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# A group of houses.
# A region of a land.
#* , chapter=22
, title= # Somewhere for a person to sit.
# (label) A house or home.
A frame of mind.
(label) A position, a responsibility.
# A role or purpose; a station.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= # The position of a contestant in a competition.
# The position as a member of a sports team.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
* Mather Byles
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
* Bible, (w) viii. 37
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= To earn a given spot in a competition.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
As verbs the difference between project and place
is that project is to extend beyond a surface while place is .As a noun 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.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
- (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.
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)place
English
(wikipedia place)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Here is the place appointed.
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
George Goodchild
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
- In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
* courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, moodDerived terms
* abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplaceVerb
(plac)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}