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the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
Alan
properNoun
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male given name
Alan
noun
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member of a Sarmatian tribe
Parsons
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noun
United States sociologist (1902-1979)
project
Noun
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A project is a complex job or assignment, often involving research or construction.
Shell is also working on projects to help find training and work experience for some of Brazil's 13 million street children.
The paper summarizes fifty research projects on the relationship between unemployment and crime.
She's a project manager with British construction company John Mowlem.
At college, I did this project on images of Black women in the media because it bothered me.
project
Verb
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If you project, you plan for or estimate something in the future.
We have projected the loss of income forward for five years.
Projecting into the future, wondering what may or may not happen and being afraid of it, is a common danger.
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If something projects out or beyond something else, it stands out.
During flight, the legs of this bird project beyond the tail.
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If you project an image somewhere, you use light to make it appear there.
During the presentation, she projected various graphs on the screen behind her.
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If you project an image, you try to give people a particular feeling about something.
The program will project a modern image of workers.