Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that ejects, especially a device in a gun that ejects the empty shell after each firing.
- noun A device using a jet of water, air, or steam to withdraw a fluid or gas from a space.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sheet-metal work, an attachment to a press for throwing out the finished stamped or drawn object while the die is rising and before the operator or the feed-motion places the next blank in position. The push-out plate used with presses employing double dies is a form of ejector. (See
double dies , underdie .) The stripper, on the other hand, is not an ejector, since it releases the work from the die only, without removing it from the press. Seestripper . - noun One who or that which ejects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
- noun (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
- noun That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
- noun (Steam Engine) a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
ejects ordispossesses . - noun ejector
seat : a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends byparachute . - noun That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
- noun A
lever for removingcircuit boards from anelectronic chassis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- noun a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing
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Examples
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The ejector from the aircraft left him unconscious; when he awoke he was stripped of his clothes and was aware of a bad cut on his head and a broken leg.
Meyer, Alton B. 1990
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When describing the mechanism, grandpa called the ejector an "erector."
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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Guess it really was to expensive to add in. stratosphere is a clown and the ejector is a crack head! just look at the eyes Stratosphere's legs are cool, but his feet are too damn huge.
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Cable network owners Viacom and NBC Universal have booted the United Church of Christ's "ejector" ad from their cable networks.
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The Times reviews recent highlights: UCC general minister John Thomas's Gettysburg College speech about the IRD's campaign to divide the mainline denominations; the church's pointed TV marketing campaign but fails to note that the "ejector" ad has now been rejected by Viacom and NBC Universal–owned cable networks; and the General Synod's decision to support same-sex marriage last summer.
Philocrites: UCC takes 'pugnacious stance' toward Christian right. 2006
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That could mean a crew-escape system might be revived, he said, because taking astronauts off the shuttle's middeck opens up the possibility of using some kind of ejector seat.
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There is one called the "ejector" seat when the squeaky clean white family is entitled to a seat in the church but the minority, handicapped, gay, single worshippers are all removed from the church by ejector seats that fling them into the air and through the roof of the church.
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There is one called the "ejector" seat when the squeaky clean white family is entitled to a seat in the church but the minority, handicapped, gay, single worshippers are all removed from the church by ejector seats that fling them into the air and through the roof of the church.
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Now Ubuntu has put an ejector seat button next to regular functionality.
Does Ubuntu’s New Window Design Bite? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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It (the bolt) is a three-lug design with an M-16-style extractor, a fixed ejector, and an extremely low bolt lift — I would guess about 60 degrees.
wackyvorlon commented on the word ejector
In the case of machinery, an ejector is used to produce a vacuum by passing steam through it.
September 23, 2008