/ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
OriginFrom Middle French éjecter, from Latin ēiectus, perfect passive participle of ēiciō (“to throw out”), or from ēiectō, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ē-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaciō (“to throw”).
- transitiveTo compel (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.”
“In one case at least the land on which a station was built seems to have been rented, as it is recorded that in November, 1868, a certain Mr. Rice Thomas threatened to eject the Carnarvonshire Railway”
- transitiveTo throw out or remove forcefully.
“In other news, a Montreal man was ejected from his car when he was involved in an accident.”
“The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the”
“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.”
- US, transitiveTo compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
- intransitive, usuallyTo forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
“The pilot lost control of the plane and had to eject.”
“As the crippled jet spiralled down, the pilot pulled the escape handle, ejecting first his rear-seater, then himself.”
- transitiveTo cause (something) to come out of a machine.
“Press that button to eject the video tape.”
- intransitiveTo come out of a machine.
“I can't get this cassette to eject.”
- countablean inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Formsejects(present, singular, third-person) · ejecting(participle, present) · ejected(participle, past) · ejected(past) · ejects(plural)