Projector Meaning
/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomeone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
nounAn optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
Sentence Examples
The projector doesn't work.
How do I turn off the projector?
Sami works in a big room with a huge projector.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher used a digital ____ to show the slides on the screen.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The lecturer connected her laptop to the ____ and displayed the slides on the large screen.
Word Origin & History
Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church."
— 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:
"[A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […]."
— 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
"[…] either the work of the winter storms, or perhaps the victims of some extensive but desultory scheme of denudation, which the projector had not capital or perseverance to carry into full effect."
— 1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:
"Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […]"
— 1982, The Gestalt Journal, volume 5, page 44:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher used a digital ____ to show the slides on the screen.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The lecturer connected her laptop to the ____ and displayed the slides on the large screen.