The difference between Device and Project

When used as nouns, device means any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one, whereas project means a planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

Project is also verb with the meaning: to extend beyond a surface.

check bellow for the other definitions of Device and Project

  1. Device as a noun:

    Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

    Examples:

    "There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener."

  2. Device as a noun (computing):

    A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

  3. Device as a noun:

    A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

  4. Device as a noun (Ireland):

    An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

  5. Device as a noun (rhetoric):

    A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.

  6. Device as a noun (heraldry):

    A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.

  7. Device as a noun (archaic):

    Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

  8. Device as a noun (legal):

    An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.

  9. Device as a noun (printing):

    An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.

  10. Device as a noun (obsolete):

    A spectacle or show.

  11. Device as a noun (obsolete):

    Opinion; decision.

  1. Project as a noun:

    A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

  2. Project as a noun (usually plural, US):

    An urban low-income housing building.

    Examples:

    "Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished."

  3. Project as a noun (dated):

    An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

    Examples:

    "a man given to projects"

  4. Project as a noun (obsolete):

    A projectile.

  5. Project as a noun (obsolete):

    A projection.

  6. Project as a noun (obsolete):

    The place from which a thing projects.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Holland"

  1. Project as a verb (intransitive):

    To extend beyond a surface.

  2. Project as a verb (transitive):

    To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

  3. Project as a verb (transitive):

    To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

  4. Project as a verb (transitive):

    To make plans for; to forecast.

    Examples:

    "The [[CEO]] is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007."

  5. Project as a verb (transitive, reflexive):

    To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

  6. Project as a verb (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis):

    To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

  7. Project as a verb (cartography):

    To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

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