enterprise vs project

enterprise

noun
  • An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one. 

  • Active participation in projects. 

  • A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative. 

  • A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor. 

verb
  • To treat with hospitality; to entertain. 

  • To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. 

  • To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. 

project

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

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

  • An urban low-income housing building. 

verb
  • To extend beyond a surface. 

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

  • To make plans for; to forecast. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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. 

  • To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward. 

How often have the words enterprise and project occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )