eject
English
Etymology 1
From Middle French éjecter, from Latin ēiectus, perfect passive participle of ēiciō (“to throw out”), or from ēiectō, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ē-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaciō (“to throw”).[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: ĭ-jĕktʹ, IPA(key): /ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb
eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)
- (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
- 2012, August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'
- Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
- The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.
- Andrew was ejected from his apartment for not paying the rent.
- 2012, August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'
- (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- In other news, a Montreal man was ejected from his car when he was involved in an accident.
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- (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
- (usually intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
- The pilot lost control of the plane and had to eject.
- As the crippled jet spiralled down, the pilot pulled the escape handle, ejecting first his rear-seater, then himself.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
- Press that button to eject the video tape.
- (intransitive) To come out of a machine.
- I can't get this cassette to eject.
Synonyms
- (compel (someone) to leave): boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, oust, toss, turf out; see also Thesaurus:kick out
- (throw out forcefully): throw out
- (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): kick out, send off (UK), toss
- (forcefully project (oneself or others) from an aircraft): punch out
- (cause (something) to come out of a machine): remove
- (come out of a machine): come out
Hypernyms
- (forcefully project (oneself or others) from an aircraft): bail out
Derived terms
- ejectable
- ejection
- ejector
Related terms
- ejaculate
- ejaculation
- ejecta
- ejectamenta
- ejection
- ejective
- ejectment
Translations
to compel to leave
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to throw out forcefully
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to compel (a sports player) to leave the field
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to project oneself from an aircraft
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to cause to come out of a machine
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to come out of a machine
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Etymology 2
From Latin ēiectum (“(that which is) thrown out”), from ēiciō (“to throw out”) (see Etymology 1). Coined by W. K. Clifford by analogy with subject and object.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ēʹjĕkt, IPA(key): /ˈiː.d͡ʒɛkt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -iːdʒɛkt
Noun
eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)
- (psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
References
- “eject”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.