Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eject"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Eject \E"ject\, n. [See {Eject}, v. t.] (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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Eject \E*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ejected}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Ejecting}.] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to
throw. See {Jet} a shooting forth.]
1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive
out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to
eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the
language. ``Eyes ejecting flame.'' --H. Brooke.

2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject
tenants from an estate.

Syn: To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict;
dislodge; extrude; void.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

eject
v 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}]
2: eliminate, as of bodily substances [syn: {discharge}, {expel},
{release}]
3: leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
4: cause to come out in a squirt, of liquids [syn: {squirt}, {force
out}, {squeeze out}]


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