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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. put out or expel from a place;
- Example: "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
[syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]

2. eliminate (a substance);
- Example: "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
[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]