Some articles on project, projects:
... range is perhaps best known for the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a project to dam the Snowy River, providing both water for irrigation and hydroelectricity ... The project began in 1949 employing a hundred thousand men, two-thirds of whom came from thirty other countries during the post-World War II years ... Socially this project symbolises a period during which Australia became an ethnic "melting pot" of the twentieth century but which also changed Australia's character and increased its ...
... The Vagrancy Project consisted of several dozen paintings of vagrants and a large book of notes written by the dossers themselves and those involved in their 'care' and control ... The format of the 'Project' – combining thematically linked paintings with the publication of research notes and the collected observations of the sitters – was to be used consistently throughout ... Projects such as Mental Handicap (1976), Old Age (1979) and Death (1982) followed the one on vagrancy as Lenkiewicz continued to examine the lives of ostracised, hidden sections of the community and bring ...
... Coastal engineers began the project in 2001 and provided high-quality sand for the beach and created a deeper channel for boaters ... to its community the short and long term success of the restoration project and the challenges each community overcame during the course of the project ...
... He is most famous for his participation in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior, in 1960 setting the record longest skydive, from a height greater than ... In 2012, at the age of 84, he participated in the Red Bull Stratos project as capsule communicator, directing Felix Baumgartner on his record-breaking 39 kilometres (24 mi) freefall from Earth's stratosphere ...
... After the Omega project was scrapped, some of its developers were assigned to the Cirrus project (most were assigned to the team which created Visual Basic) ... After Microsoft acquired FoxPro, there were rumors that the Microsoft project might get replaced with it, but the company decided to develop them in parallel ... It was assumed that the project would make use of Extensible Storage Engine (Jet Blue) but, in the end, only support for Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet ...
More definitions of "project":
- (verb): Project on a screen.
Example: "The images are projected onto the screen"
- (verb): Communicate vividly.
Example: "He projected his feelings"
- (verb): Regard as objective.
Synonyms: externalize, externalise
- (verb): Throw, send, or cast forward.
Example: "Project a missile"
Synonyms: send off
- (verb): Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another.
- (verb): Draw a projection of.
- (noun): A planned undertaking.
Synonyms: projection
- (verb): Present for consideration.
Synonyms: propose
- (verb): Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
Synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
- (noun): Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
Synonyms: undertaking, task, labor
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