Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To transmit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A projected alinement or course for a railway or other line of transportation.
- To throw or cast (across or through).
- n. A ferry; a passage or place for passing over water with boats (by some commentators said to mean the boat itself).
- n. A trajectory.
- n. The act of throwing across or transporting; transmission; transference.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To throw or cast through, over, or across.
- n. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
- n. The act of trajecting; trajection.
- n. A trajectory.
Etymologies
- Latin trāicere, trāiect-, to throw across : trā-, trāns-, trans- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“But, as Oi was sayin ', the whiles Miss Fanny was tryin' -- by nine times six is forty-seven an 'traject'ry an' muzzle v'locity an 'fours right an' holler squares -- to wish the Boh offen the hilltop so he could march us through the pass accordin 'to Hoyle, Fronte McKim was off ahead among the rocks, layin' on his belly behint a ant-hill studyin 'the hillside through his spyglass.”
“If an object, sized 40km and leaving a crater 500km wide, hits the earth, is it capable of disrupting or altering the traject of the earth around the sun?”
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“Yet this particular fear leaps like a lion onto many fledgling writers, dragging them off the path to future efforts: it is the first cousin that dangerous, self-hating myth that afflicts too many writers, leading to despair, the notion that if one is REALLY talented, the first draft, the first query, and the first book will automatically traject one to stardom.”
“This particular fear leaps like a lion onto many aspiring writers, dragging them off the path to future efforts: it is the first cousin that dangerous, self-hating myth that afflicts too many of us, leading to despair, the notion that if one is REALLY talented, the first draft, the first query, and the first book will automatically traject one to stardom.”
“Now, I have mentioned the most common corollary to this belief many times before: the insidious idea that if a book is really good or, more usually, if its writer is truly talented, that the first query, the first pitch, the first submission will instantly traject it into a cozy lifetime relationship with the perfect agent or editor.”
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“During this week, along this traject, six edelman corings were made and three sediment outcrops alongside the river were studied.”
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“Le Voyage ou traject me fist plus de peine que celuy ou ie passay deux fois L'ocean, au lieu de 3 jours nous eumes 3 Semaines pour St. Valeris et ou il y a un entreé Si dangereuse qu'il falust que des guides nous vinrent a la rencontre pour nous mener, car il fist un grand vent on ne put voir les marques.”
“What we divide and measure is the track of the movement once accomplished, not the movement itself: it is the trajectory, not the traject.”
“But our idleness takes exception to this, for the feeling of effort appears precisely in the traject from the dynamic scheme to the images and concepts, in the passing from one plane of thought to another.”
“Greenland, from Greenland to Labrador, the first traject is the widest; and this having been practised from the earliest times of which we have any account of that part of the earth, it is not difficult to suppose that the subsequent trajects may have been sometimes passed.”
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