[syn: squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
eject
v 1: put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was
excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out,
exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]
2: eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted
in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" [syn: exhaust,
discharge, expel, eject, release]
3: leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
4: cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his
little sister" [syn: squirt, force out, squeeze out,
eject]