Assignment vs. Project
Assignmentnoun
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
Assignmentnoun
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
Assignmentnoun
An assigned task.
Assignmentnoun
A position to which someone is assigned.
Assignmentnoun
(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
Assignmentnoun
(legal) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
Assignmentnoun
(legal) A document that effects this transfer.
Assignmentnoun
(computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Assignmentnoun
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
Assignmentnoun
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.
Assignmentnoun
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces);
Assignmentnoun
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
Assignmentnoun
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons;
Assignmentnoun
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
Assignmentnoun
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
Assignmentnoun
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
Projectnoun
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
Projectnoun
An urban low-income housing building.
Projectnoun
(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
Projectnoun
(obsolete) A projectile.
Projectnoun
(obsolete) A projection.
Projectnoun
(obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
Projectverb
(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
Projectverb
(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Projectverb
(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
Projectverb
(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
Projectverb
To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
Projectverb
To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
Projectverb
(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
Projectnoun
The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
Projectnoun
That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Projectnoun
An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
Projectverb
To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Projectverb
To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
Projectverb
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.
Projectverb
To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
Projectverb
To form a project; to scheme.
Projectnoun
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;
Projectnoun
a planned undertaking
Projectverb
communicate vividly;
Projectverb
extend out or project in space;
Projectverb
transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
Projectverb
project on a screen;
Projectverb
cause to be heard;
Projectverb
draw a projection of
Projectverb
make or work out a plan for; devise;
Projectverb
present for consideration
Projectverb
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;
Projectverb
put or send forth;
Projectverb
throw, send, or cast forward;
Projectverb
regard as objective
Project
A project (or program) is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned (usually by a project team, but sometimes by a project manager or by a project planner) to achieve a particular aim.An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a .A project may be a temporary (rather than permanent) social system (work system), possibly staffed by teams (within or across organizations) to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints.A project may form a part of wider programme management or function as an ad hoc system.Note that open-source software or artists' musical (for example) may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations.
