Assignment vs. Project
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
