Forecast vs. Project — What's the Difference?

Predict or estimate (a future event or trend)

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 "set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations".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 "projects" or artists' musical "projects" (for example) may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations.

A calculation or estimate of future events, especially coming weather or a financial trend.

An undertaking requiring concerted effort

To estimate or predict in advance, especially to predict (weather conditions) by analysis of meteorological data.

An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.

To serve as an advance indication of; foreshadow

A plan or proposal for accomplishing something.

A prediction, as of coming events or conditions

Also projects A housing project.

To estimate how something will be in the future.

To thrust outward or forward

To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.

To throw forward; hurl

(obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.

To send out into space; cast

An estimation of a future condition.

To cause (an image) to appear on a surface by the controlled direction of light

A prediction of the weather.

(Mathematics) To produce (a projection).

(betting) exacta

To direct (one's voice) so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

(Psychology) To attribute (one's own emotion or motive, for example) to someone else unconsciously in order to avoid anxiety or guilt.

To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices.

To convey an impression of to an audience or to others

To contrive or plan beforehand.

To form a plan or intention for

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

To calculate, estimate, or predict (something in the future), based on present data or trends

A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast.

To extend forward or out; jut out

A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

To direct one's voice so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

Predict in advance

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

Judge to be probable

An urban low-income housing building.

Indicate by signs;

(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

(obsolete) A projectile.

(obsolete) A projection.

(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.

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

(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.

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

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

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

(geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.

(neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location

To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

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.

To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

To form a project; to scheme.

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

A planned undertaking

Communicate vividly;

Extend out or project in space;

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

Project on a screen;

Cause to be heard;

Draw a projection of

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

Present for consideration

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Put or send forth;

Throw, send, or cast forward;

Regard as objective