ejection

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
That task got no easier after Moreno was sent off on a straight red for a bad tackle on midfielder Brad Davis -- Moreno went in late and, while he was obviously upset (choosing not to comment about his brief stint on the pitch after the game), the ejection was a justifiable one.

View all »
Definitions (10)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun The act of ejecting or the condition of being ejected.
  2. noun Ejected matter.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • If some of these smaller planemos were ejected as close binaries and manage to stay together during ejection, they might be close enough to each other to generate large tides. —  AnalogSFF,December2007
  • Still feeling somewhat disoriented after his near-ejection, Reed followed and took a seat directly across the table from the newcomer, who Reed noticed had taken care to keep his back to the corner rather than the nearest door. —  LastFullMeasure
  • That task got no easier after Moreno was sent off on a straight red for a bad tackle on midfielder Brad Davis -- Moreno went in late and, while he was obviously upset (choosing not to comment about his brief stint on the pitch after the game), the ejection was a justifiable one. —  DCist
  • Pamela: Trying to understand how changes in the apparent magnetic field lines, the places where we can see hot x-ray emitting gas twisted up into bizarre shapes going between sunspots†¦ understanding what specific shapes indicate that a flare or coronal mass ejection is about to happen is probably one of the most interesting thing. —  Astronomy Cast
  • He spun toward Emmel and shouted something that drew an immediate ejection, then fired his batting helmet into the grass with enough force that wound up near the dugout. —  post-gazette.com - News
 

Tags

ejection hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Words tagged ejection

Stats

This word has been looked up 46 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Latin ejectio(n-), from ejectus, past participle of eicere, ejicere, eject.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/əˈdʒɛkʃən/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

hissy · Intimidating · spokespeople · dragon · STUNNING

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence