EJECT: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Matching Terms: | | Ejecta, ejection, ejection fraction, ejection seat, Ejectment, ejector, ejector seat
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- [v] eliminate, as of bodily substances
- [v] cause to come out in a squirt, of liquids
- [v] put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom"
- [v] leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
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| | Synonyms: | | boot out, chuck out, discharge, exclude, expel, expel, force out, kick out, release, squeeze out, squirt, throw out, turf out, turn out |
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| | See Also: | | abort, bleed, blow, bounce, breathe, bump, cough out, cough up, discharge, dislodge, displace, egest, ejaculate, eliminate, emit, eruct, evict, excrete, exit, exorcise, exorcize, expectorate, extravasate, fester, get out, go out, hemorrhage, leave, maturate, move, ovulate, pass, pass off, shed blood, spew, spew out, spit out, spit up, spritz, suppurate | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\E*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ejected}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Ejecting}.] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to
throw. See {Jet} a shooting forth.]
1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive
out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to
eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the
language. ``Eyes ejecting flame.'' --H. Brooke.
2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject
tenants from an estate.
Syn: To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict;
dislodge; extrude; void.
\E"ject\, n. [See {Eject}, v. t.] (Philos.)
An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not
a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject,
not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford.
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