project
Please project project timelines accurately.
The sentence instructs to forecast the timelines of an undertaking accurately.
Meanings
to forecast, estimate, or extend forward; or, to cast (an image) onto a surface
- Analysts project growth of 5% next year.
- The slide projector projected the image onto the screen.
a planned undertaking, especially one requiring concerted effort over time
- The renovation project took eighteen months.
- Each student must complete a final project.
Word origin
From Latin prōjectus, past participle of prōicere ('to throw forth'), formed from prō- ('forward') + iacere ('to throw'). The same Latin iacere produces 'inject', 'reject', 'eject', 'subject', and 'object' — all involving throwing in some direction. The verb-noun stress alternation follows the trochaic noun rule.
Fun fact
All the '-ject' words ('project', 'reject', 'inject', 'eject', 'subject', 'object', 'abject', 'interject', 'conject(ure)') share the same Latin root iacere ('to throw'). The prefix tells you the direction: pro- (forward), re- (back), in- (into), e- (out), sub- (under), ob- (against), ab- (away), inter- (between). It's a small grammar of Latin prefixes hidden inside English vocabulary.