Dictionary Definition
eject
Verb
1 put out or expel from a place; "The child was
expelled from the classroom" [syn: expel, chuck out,
exclude, throw out,
kick
out, turf out,
boot
out, turn out]
3 leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection
seat or capsule
4 cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy
squirted water at his little sister" [syn: squirt, force out,
squeeze
out]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- (verb, noun: button): ĭ-jĕktʹ, /ɪˈdʒɛkt/, /I"dZEkt/
- (noun: psychological sense): ēʹjĕkt, /ˈiːdʒɛkt/, /"i:dZEkt/
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb
- To force (a person or
persons) to leave.
- The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.
- Andrew was ejected from his apartment for not paying the rent.
- The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.
- To be thrown out
violently.
- In other news, a Montreal man was ejected from his car when he was involved in an accident.
- To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
- To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
- Press that button to eject the video tape.
- To project oneself from an aircraft.
- The pilot lost control of the plane and had to eject.
- To come out of a machine.
- I can't get this cassette to eject.
Synonyms
- (force (a person or persons) to leave): boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, oust, throw out
- (be thrown out violently): be forced out, be hurled out, be thrown out, be projected out
- (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): send off (UK)
- (cause (something) to come out of a machine):
- (project oneself from an aircraft): bail out
- (come out of a machine): come out
Related terms
Translations
compel to leave
- Finnish: poistaa, häätää
- Kurdish:
be thrown out violently
cause (something) to come out of a machine
- Finnish: poistaa
project oneself from an aircraft
- Finnish: laukaista heittoistuin
- Hungarian: katapultál
- Portuguese: ejetar
come out of a machine
Noun
eject (not used in the plural)- A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from
the machine.
- When the tape stops, press eject.
Usage notes
- Eject in this sense 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' ").
Noun
- (by analogy with subject and object) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Extensive Definition
Ejection and ejecting can refer to the
following:
Accidents and Safety
- Ejection seat, safety device typically used to escape an aircraft in-flight
- To be forcefully thrown from a moving vehicle, such as in a car accident
Sports
- Ejection (sports), the act of removing a player or team official from a game, usually for misconduct or other rules violation or for fighting.
Medicine and Science
- Acoustic droplet ejection, a method of moving fluid, without physical contact, using ultrasound
- Coronal mass ejection, ejection of material from a sun's corona
- Ejection fraction, the fraction of blood pumped with each heart beat
- Particles ejected during the formation of an impact crater or volcanic eruption are known as ejecta.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abrupt,
abstract, alienate, axe, belch, blow open, blow out, boot
out, bounce, break out,
bump, burst forth, burst
out, cashier, cast, cast off, cast out, charge, chase, chuck, chuck out, clear, clear away, clear out,
clear the decks, cock, cut
adrift, cut off, cut out, debar, defenestrate, delete, depart, deport, detonate, detrude, disarticulate, disbar, discard, discharge, disconnect, disengage, disgorge, disjoin, disjoint, dismiss, displace, dispose of, dispossess, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, drive off, drive out,
drop, drum out, elide, eliminate, emit, eradicate, eruct, erupt, estrange, evict, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, extravasate, extrude, exude, fell, fire, fire off, force out, get quit
of, get rid of, get shut of, give the hook, gun, gun for, heave out, hit, hurl forth, isolate, jettison, junk, kick downstairs, kick out,
lay off, leave, let fly,
let off, liquidate,
load, make redundant,
obtrude, ooze, oust, out, outlaw, part, pelt, pepper, pick off, pick out,
pistol, plug, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, pull away, pull back, pull
out, purge, put out,
reject, remove, repudiate, riddle, root out, root up,
rout, rule out, run off,
sack, segregate, send forth, send
out, send packing, separate, sequester, set apart, set
aside, shed, shoot, shoot at, shoot down,
show, shut off, shut out,
snipe, spew, split, spout, spurn, stand aloof, stand apart,
stand aside, step aside, strike, strike off, strike out,
subtract, take a
potshot, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw
overboard, throw up, thrust out, torpedo, toss out, turn out,
uncouple, unyoke, vomit, vomit forth, weed out,
withdraw