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| English Dictionary: eject |
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| 3 results for eject |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- eject
- v
- put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was
excluded from the game"
Synonym(s): eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out
- eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
Synonym(s): exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release
- leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
- cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
Synonym(s): squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Eject \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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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Eject \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. [bd]Eyes ejecting flame.[b8] --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.
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