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eject

ɪˈʤɛkt
WordNet
Copper medal. Obverse: man's chest piece with laurel wreath inside. Reverse: Jupitter with lightning ejects Phaeton from solar car inside circle.
Copper medal. Obverse: man's chest piece with laurel wreath inside. Reverse: Jupitter with lightning ejects Phaeton from solar car inside circle.
  1. (v) eject
    eliminate (a substance) "combustion products are exhausted in the engine","the plant releases a gas"
  2. (v) eject
    cause to come out in a squirt "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
  3. (v) eject
    put out or expel from a place "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
  4. (v) eject
    leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances
  1. Eject
    (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.
  2. Eject
    (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
In the mall, the fat sheriff with the shotgun fires at the spiders. When the ejected casings hit the ground, they make a metallic "chink" noise. Shotgun casings are made of plastic.
  1. eject
    To throw out; cast forth; thrust out; discharge; drive away or expel.
  2. eject
    Specifically To dismiss, as from office, occupancy, or ownership; turn out: as, to eject an unfaithful officer; to eject a tenant.
  3. eject
    Synonyms To emit, extrude.
  4. eject
    To oust, dislodge.
  5. (n) eject
    That which is ejected; specifically, in philosophy, a reality whose existence is inferred, but which is outside of, and from its nature inaccessible to, the consciousness of the one making the inference: thus, the consciousness of one individual is an eject to the consciousness of any other.
  6. (n) eject
    In projective geometry, the figure composed of straights and planes made in projecting the. original.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium), when brushed by a passerby, ejects its seeds and a stream of poisonous juice that stings the skin.
  1. (v.t) Eject
    e-jekt′ to cast out: to dismiss: to dispossess of: to expel
  2. (ns) Eject
    a coinage of Prof. Clifford for an inferred existence, a thing thrown out of one's own consciousness, as distinguished from object, a thing presented in one's consciousness
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere,; e, out + jacere, to throw. See Jet a shooting forth

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. ejectāre, freq. of ejicĕre, ejectume, out, jacĕre, to throw.

Usage in the news

The impact of the crash tore the red car in half, ejecting Davis and Seeley from the car, troopers said. deseretnews.com

The Charles County Sheriff's Office says a police cruiser stuck a passenger ejected from a car during a chase in Indian Head. jla.com

Two of the occupants were ejected from the vehicle and one suffered permanent brain damage . thestar.com

Travis Dean Darling , born Jan 3, 1989, in Steamboat Springs, was killed instantly in a rollover accident when he was ejected from his truck, just after midnight Oct 28, 2012. stwnewspress.com

F ormer Ignacio resident Travis Dean Darling was killed instantly when he was ejected from his truck in a rollover accident just after midnight on Sunday, Oct 28, 2012, near Rockdale, Texas. durangoherald.com

Andrew Weber/US PresswireNdamukong Suh was ejected in the third quarter after he stepped on Evan Dietrich-Smith. espn.go.com

OHP says 38-year-old Samuel Tomson was ejected about 60 feet from an 18-wheeler after running off SH 34. kxii.com

Fan Who Died Was Ejected for " Disorderly Conduct". grz.com

Team continues review of Gerken's ejection. buffalonews.com

Fan found dead after Bills game was ejected for disorderly conduct. buffalonews.com

Fan Who Died Was Ejected for " Disorderly Conduct ". grz.com

Fan found dead after Bills game was ejected for disorderly conduct . buffalonews.com

Three people were ejected, and two passengers died. kbtx.com

When Bradley Mitchell's mom was ejected from the family's car after a devastating crash, the 10-year-old boy instinctively knew what to do. fox28spokane.com

Ejection Mars PSJA Memorial Win At Economedes. team4news.com

Usage in scientific papers

If spatial velocity or/and magnetic field of a NS are very high, then this NS can appear as Georotator after the end of the stage of ejection.
Evolution of isolated neutron stars in globular clusters: number of Accretors

The photoelectron is ejected in directions that carry a significant memory of the electric field of the photon. When the beam is linearly polarized the electrons are ejected preferentially around the electric field.
An efficient photoelectric X-ray Polarimeter for the study of Black Holes and Neutron Stars

The observed mass distribution for the compact remnants of massive stars (neutron stars and black holes) and its relationship to possible mechanisms for the ejection of the envelopes of type II and Ib/c supernovae is analyzed.
Why NS and BH mass distribition is bimodal?

The envelope ejection, if any, must occur on the first stage of the hot NS with most intensive neutrino emission (this stage lasts for several seconds).
Why NS and BH mass distribition is bimodal?

This additional release of energy fairly far from the center of the collapsing star can efficiently eject its envelope.
Why NS and BH mass distribition is bimodal?

Usage in literature

Silver, applied for a writ of ejectment at the land office in Oregon City. "An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony" by Anonymous

Thither also came Marcellus of Ancyra, and ejected clerics from all parts of the East. "The Arian Controversy" by H. M. Gwatkin

In the early stages of the disease, the ejections consist of chyme and mucus, streaked with blood. "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English" by R. V. Pierce

Mother Church ejects the suicide from her bosom only when his act is an act of despair. "A Mummer's Tale" by Anatole France

As soon as the shell is automatically ejected this wire flies out also. "In Search of the Unknown" by Robert W. Chambers

I even caught Mike polishing the ejection seats, because there wasn't anything else to make sure of! "Space Tug" by Murray Leinster

The Lieutenant and fifty men were commissioned to eject the miners. "The Victim" by Thomas Dixon

This space would have been filled with grout ejected through the iron lining. "Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910" by James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard

The disgusting odor is caused by a liquid that is ejected out of little pores on the under side of the thorax. "The Insect Folk" by Margaret Warner Morley

After he had gone, the lawyer picked up the Luger, withdrew the clip, and ejected the round in the chamber. "Time and Time Again" by Henry Beam Piper

Usage in poetry
To think that I, who've ruled alone
So proudly in the past,
Should be ejected from my throne
By my own son at last!
The brutal curses you eject
Make strong men dread to hear you.
The world outside your petty sect
Feels sick when it is near you.
The Unicorn can, with his horn, 'tis said,
Those waters heal, where snakes have poison shed:
So Christ can, by his blood, those souls protect,
On which, the fiend his venom shall eject.
Who is it ejects his sperm to the naked flood?
In the wave-mother?
Who swims enwombed?
Who lies with the waters of his silent passion, womb-
element?
--Fish in the waters under the earth.
Christ, the fiend must disarm, that possesses each mind,
And in gyves the incroaching invader must bind;
He thence must eject him, tho' loth to depart,
And garrison keep his ownself in each heart.
A bowl may smoothly be ejected,
Yet meet with rubs we ne'er expected.
The passenger his errand sped,
And, ah! contrary turn'd his head.
'Twill human wisdom much advance
To leave but little room for chance.