Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To throw out forcefully; expel.
  • intransitive verb To compel to leave.
  • intransitive verb To evict.
  • intransitive verb Sports To disqualify or force (a player or coach) to leave the playing area for the remainder of a game.
  • intransitive verb To make an emergency exit from an aircraft by deployment of an ejection seat or capsule.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To throw out; cast forth; thrust out; discharge; drive away or expel.
  • Specifically To dismiss, as from office, occupancy, or ownership; turn out: as, to eject an unfaithful officer; to eject a tenant.
  • Synonyms To emit, extrude.
  • To oust, dislodge.
  • noun In projective geometry, the figure composed of straights and planes made in projecting the. original.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge
  • transitive verb (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess.
  • noun (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 Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
  • verb transitive To throw out forcefully.
  • verb US, transitive To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
  • verb transitive To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
  • verb intransitive To project oneself from an aircraft.
  • verb intransitive To come out of a machine.
  • noun A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
  • noun psychology (by analogy with subject and object) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put out or expel from a place
  • verb eliminate (a substance)
  • verb leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
  • verb cause to come out in a squirt

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English ejecten, from Latin ēicere, ēiect- : ē-, ex-, ex- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin ēiectus, from e-, combining form of ex- ("out") + iectus, variant form of iactus, perfect passive participle of iacere ("to throw").

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Examples

  • Needless to say, I was happy that I didn’t have to pull the "loud handle" and eject from the plane.

    An Interview with Joe Weber 2010

  • Allow eject from the other path and close the path so compression can take place.

    Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Open Source Earth Block Maker 2008

  • Using a translation matrix yet to be programmed and actuators yet to be invented, you could digitize, say, the entire content of BLDGBLOG into charged electrons and protons, which you would thereafter eject from a fleet of satellites orbiting between the earth and the sun.

    Aurora Bibliothèque 2008

  • - The first trial run of the aircraft goes awry, with the engine stalling mid-flight, causing Hal to eject from the plane, destroying it.

    DC’s Next, Green Lantern: A GKS Script « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2008

  • On the third day, Source witnessed a red parachute eject from a disabled F-105 airplane.

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

  • Samuel Fantle, the first to eject from the aircraft, was classified Prisoner of War, then later Killed in Captivity.

    Hartney, James C. 1991

  • However, the possibility existed that the two were able to safely eject from the aircraft, and they were not listed as killed in action but missing in action.

    Parker, Woodrow W. II 1991

  • Samuel Fantle, the first to eject from the aircraft, was classified Prisoner of War, then later Killed in Captivity.

    Fantle, Samuel III 1991

  • Hoskins or Pattillo may have been able to successfully eject from the plane in the darkness, and that it was possible that one or both could have been captured.

    Hoskins, Charles L. 1991

  • Hoskins or Pattillo may have been able to successfully eject from the plane in the darkness, and that it was possible that one or both could have been captured.

    Pattillo, Ralph N. 1991

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