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EJECT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate (a substance)

Example:

the plant releases a gas

Synonyms:

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

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)

blow (free of obstruction by blowing air through)

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 2

Meaning:

Cause to come out in a squirt

Example:

the boy squirted water at his little sister

Synonyms:

eject; force out; squeeze out; squirt

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put out or expel from a place

Example:

The unruly student was excluded from the game

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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 4

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Dennin threw open the breech of the shot-gun, ejecting the empty shells.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Powerful hydrothermal vents eject material from Enceladus' core, which mixes with water from the moon's massive subsurface ocean before it is released into space as water vapor and ice grains.

(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)

Without enough energy created by fusion, the core of the star collapses in on itself, while the surface layers are ejected outward.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)

The time it take to eject blood from the left ventricle.

(Left Ventricular Ejection Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Previous studies of π1 Gruis found a shell of material 0.9 light-years away from the central star, thought to have been ejected around 20 000 years ago.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

Any component of the organ which receives blood from the veins and ejects it into the arteries.

(Heart Part, NCI Thesaurus)

As the material is ejected, it is heated up and smashes into the surrounding interstellar medium.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

Each side is composed of two chambers: the atrium (receiving blood) and ventricle (ejecting blood).

(Heart, NCI Thesaurus)

Determining that a particular particle had been ejected and returned to Bennu might be a scientific feat similar to finding a needle in a haystack.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

It is divided by a musculomembranous septum into two halves — right or venous and left or arterial — each of which consists of a receiving chamber (atrium) and an ejecting chamber (ventricle).

(Heart, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)