eject : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: eject	by the DICT Development Group
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
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eject \Eject"\, 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.