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Webster 1913 Edition
Eject
E-ject′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ejected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ejecting
.] 1.
To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge;
“Eyes ejecting flame.” as, to
eject
a person from a room; to eject
a traitor from the country; to eject
words from the language. H. Brooke.
Syn. – To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void.
Webster 1828 Edition
Eject
EJECT'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To throw out; to cast forth; to thrust out, as from a place inclosed or confined.2.
To discharge through the natural passages or emunctories; to evacuate.3.
To throw out or expel from an office; to dismiss from an office; to turn out; as, to eject a clergyman.4.
To dispossess of land or estate.5.
To drive away; to expel; to dismiss with hatred.6.
To cast away; to reject; to banish; as, to eject words from a language.Definition 2024
eject
eject
English
Usage notes
The physiological sense always uses pronunciation stressed on the first syllable (IPA(key): /iː.dʒɛkt/); either pronunciation is used for the other senses.
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.
- (intransitive) To project oneself from an aircraft.
- The pilot lost control of the plane and had to eject.
- (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
- (throw out forcefully): throw out
- (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): kick out, send off (UK), toss
- (cause (something) to come out of a machine): remove
- (project oneself from an aircraft): bail out
- (come out of a machine): come out
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to compel to leave
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to throw out forcefully
to compel (a sports player) to leave the field
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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Noun
eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)
- (uncountable) A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
- When the tape stops, press eject.
- (psychology, countable) (by analogy with subject and object) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Usage notes
- Eject in sense 1 is used without an article, and is often capitalised ("press EJECT") as it is marked on many such buttons, or enclosed in quotation marks ("press 'eject'").