(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
(n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
(n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
(v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
(v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.
Example Sentences:
(1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(4) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(5) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(6) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(8) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
(9) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(10) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(11) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(13) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(14) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(15) 14 rats were studied for the nigro-reticular projection.
(16) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(17) The axons of A5, RPoOl and RaD neurons exhibit no lateral predominance in their spinal projections.
(18) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(19) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(20) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
Undershot
Definition:
(a.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
(a.) Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profits undershot analysts' forecasts as weak refining profit margins, higher production costs and output stoppages in Nigeria weighed on its performance.
(2) Relative errors were comparatively larger for very short and very long times-to-collision throughout, where events of the first kind were overshot, the latter ones undershot.
(3) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
(4) Illustration: CBI The CBI’s monthly figures undershot expectations in financial markets.
(5) Silver's model slightly undershot it by having Obama take the election by about 3pt .
(6) This definition is contrasted with situations in which the new viability optimum is undershot.
(7) Serum LDH activity declined to control within 8 hr, while serum CPK undershot controls at 8 hr and returned to the control value by 24 hr.
(8) If an anticipatory saccade was made after reaction times below 75 ms, it frequently undershot the target by more than 20% and was followed by a corrective saccade.
(9) Britain's growth performance has consistently undershot both government and IMF forecasts.
(10) When cells were subjected to hypoosmotic shock they occasionally undershot the new projected density, but the undershoot was not as dramatic as the overshoot seen with hyperosmotic shocks.
(11) The penetrance of the gene could possibly be masked in populations in which undershot jaw occurs.
(12) But it undershot economists' forecasts for 52.6 and was the weakest for four months.
(13) He deliberately allowed the forecast deficit to rise as growth undershot in the early years of the parliament,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS’s director.
(14) On this view, the tree would be so thoroughly hollowed-out that it may no longer be able to support itself.” Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ Read more Haldane said the increasing automation of the workplace might already be helping to depress wage growth, explaining why inflation has consistently undershot the government’s 2% target.
(15) Even after completion of a corrective saccade following the primary saccade, subjects systematically undershot target direction and overshot target depth, suggesting that visual feedback normally plays an important role in the fine guidance of gaze after the completion of a primary saccade.
(16) "The fourth-quarter GDP figures may have undershot predictions.
(17) The public finances undershot economists’ forecasts in January, but mainly because of a change in a way the Office for National Statistics (ONS) accounts for tax revenues.
(18) Again, that undershot forecasts, which had been for modest growth of 0.2% on the month.
(19) Even stripping out more volatile prices, such as fuel and food, the so-called core measure of inflation undershot expectations in September.
(20) It was above the 50-mark that separates growth from contraction but undershot forecasts of a 52.7 reading in a Reuters poll of economists.