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Assignment and Project Definitions

Assignment

The act of assigning
His assignment of the tasks seemed unfair.

Project

An undertaking requiring concerted effort
A community cleanup project.
A government-funded irrigation project.

Assignment

Something, such as a task, that is assigned
What's the math assignment for tonight?.

Project

An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.

Assignment

A position or post of duty to which one is assigned
The journalist took an assignment in China.

Project

A plan or proposal for accomplishing something.
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Assignment

The transfer of a claim, right, interest, or property from one to another.

Project

Also projects A housing project.

Assignment

The instrument by which this transfer is effected.

Project

To thrust outward or forward
Project one's jaw in defiance.

Assignment

The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

Project

To throw forward; hurl
Project an arrow.
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Assignment

The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

Project

To send out into space; cast
Project a light beam.

Assignment

(LGBT) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.

Project

To cause (an image) to appear on a surface by the controlled direction of light
Projected the slide onto a screen.

Assignment

An assigned task.
The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

Project

(Mathematics) To produce (a projection).
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Assignment

A position to which someone is assigned.
Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

Project

To direct (one's voice) so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

Assignment

(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

Project

(Psychology) To attribute (one's own emotion or motive, for example) to someone else unconsciously in order to avoid anxiety or guilt.

Assignment

(legal) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

Project

To convey an impression of to an audience or to others
A posture that projects defeat.

Assignment

(legal) A document that effects this transfer.
Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

Project

To form a plan or intention for
Project a new business enterprise.

Assignment

(programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Project

To calculate, estimate, or predict (something in the future), based on present data or trends
Projecting next year's expenses.

Assignment

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

Project

To extend forward or out; jut out
Beams that project beyond the eaves.

Assignment

A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

Project

To direct one's voice so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

Assignment

A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces);
Hazardous duty

Project

A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

Assignment

The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

Project

An urban low-income housing building.
Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.

Assignment

The act of distributing something to designated places or persons;
The first task is the assignment of an address to each datum

Project

(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
A man given to projects

Assignment

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Project

A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

Assignment

An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

Project

(obsolete) A projectile.

Assignment

The act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
The appointment had to be approved by the whole committee

Project

(obsolete) A projection.

Project

(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.

Project

(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

Project

(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

Project

(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.

Project

To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

Project

To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

Project

(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

Project

(geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.

Project

(neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location

Project

To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.

Project

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

Project

That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Vented much policy, and projects deep.
Projects of happiness devised by human reason.
He entered into the project with his customary ardor.

Project

An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

Project

To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Before his feet herself she did project.
Behold! th' ascending villas on my sideProject long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

Project

To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
What sit then projecting peace and war?

Project

To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; - sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

Project

To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

Project

To form a project; to scheme.

Project

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;
He prepared for great undertakings

Project

A planned undertaking

Project

Communicate vividly;
He projected his feelings

Project

Extend out or project in space;
His sharp nose jutted out
A single rock sticks out from the cliff

Project

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

Project

Project on a screen;
The images are projected onto the screen

Project

Cause to be heard;
His voice projects well

Project

Draw a projection of

Project

Make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their boss
Design a new sales strategy
Plan an attack

Project

Present for consideration

Project

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;
I can't see him on horseback!
I can see what will happen
I can see a risk in this strategy

Project

Put or send forth;
She threw the flashlight beam into the corner
The setting sun threw long shadows
Cast a spell
Cast a warm light

Project

Throw, send, or cast forward;
Project a missile

Project

Regard as objective

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