Projector
[prə'dʒektə] or [prə'dʒɛktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen.
(noun.) an optical device for projecting a beam of light.
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.
Edited by Abraham
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Schemer, designer, planner.
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The wonderful Bank, of which he was the chief projector, establisher, and manager, was the latest of the many Merdle wonders. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Have you ever heard of any projector or inventor who failed to find it all but inaccessible, and whom it did not discourage and ill-treat? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was about this time that another projector, the Rev. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The weightiest of men had said to projectors, 'Now, what name have you got? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The temporary relief, however, which this bank afforded to those projectors, proved a real and permanent relief to the other Scotch banks. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The over-trading of some bold projectors in both parts of the united kingdom, was the original cause of this excessive circulation of paper money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The projectors, no doubt, had in their golden dreams the most distinct vision of this great profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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