EJECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eject mean? 

• EJECT (verb)
  The verb EJECT has 4 senses:

1. put out or expel from a place

2. eliminate (a substance)

3. leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule

4. cause to come out in a squirt

  Familiarity information: EJECT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EJECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they eject    ... he / she / it ejects   
Past simple: ejected   
Past participle: ejected   
-ing form: ejecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put out or expel from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out

Context example:

The unruly student was excluded from the game

Hypernyms (to "eject" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eject"):

evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

show the door (ask to leave)

bounce (eject from the premises)

exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

ejection (the act of forcing out someone or something)

ejector (a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eliminate (a substance)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release

Context example:

the plant releases a gas

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eject"):

blow (free of obstruction by blowing air through)

breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))

fester; maturate; suppurate (ripen and generate pus)

eruct; spew; spew out (eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical)

bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood (lose blood from one's body)

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

ovulate (produce and discharge eggs)

abort (terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion)

ejaculate (eject semen)

cough out; cough up; expectorate; spit out; spit up (discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

ejection (the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "eject" is one way to...):

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

ejection (the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to come out in a squirt

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

eject; force out; squeeze out; squirt

Context example:

the boy squirted water at his little sister

Hypernyms (to "eject" is one way to...):

discharge (pour forth or release)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eject"):

spritz (eject (a liquid) quickly)

extravasate (force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

ejection (the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting)

 Context examples 

With such a low mass, it could be a gas giant similar to Jupiter that was ejected from its star system.

(A cold, close neighbor of the Sun, NASA)

After shock-compression experiments on whitlockite samples that simulated the conditions of ejecting meteorites from Mars, the researchers studied their microscopic makeup with X-ray experiments.

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With each impact, a small shock wave fans out and ejects water from the surrounding area.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

A finding indicating a decrease in the volume of blood ejected during ventricular heart contraction.

(Ejection Fraction Decreased, NCI Thesaurus)

With each beat, a normal heart ejects about one-half to two-thirds of the blood in its left chamber.

(Measurement of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

Using simulations from previous research, they showed that a small percentage of objects get so close to gas giants as they’re ejected that they should be torn into pieces.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

The fireballs present a puzzle to astronomers, because the ejected material could not have been shot out by the host star, called V Hydrae.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

Our sun goes through periods of increased activity, where it explosively ejects material from its surface, flinging it outward.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

The percentage computed when the amount of blood ejected during a ventricular contraction of the heart is compared to the amount that was present prior to the contraction.

(Ejection Fraction Decreased, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

This project is an attempt to measure galactic magnetic fields and learn how they influence the way that interstellar gases are ejected from galaxy disks and contribute to galaxy formation and evolution.

(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)