Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of ejecting or the condition of being ejected.
- noun Ejected matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In philosophy, the mental act of forming an eject.
- noun The act of ejecting, or the state of being ejected; expulsion; dismissal; dispossession; rejection.
- noun That which is ejected; matter thrown out or expelled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
- noun (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
- noun The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
ejecting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- noun the act of forcing out someone or something
Etymologies
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Examples
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Greece is on the verge of collapse or ejection from the EU.
Archive 2009-10-18 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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Greece is on the verge of collapse or ejection from the EU.
Crystal balls : The Five Year View Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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Eduardo Saverin's ejection from the company, for instance, seems rather more complicated than the movie suggested.
Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg! Ezra Klein 2010
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Co-founder Eduardo Saverin's ejection from the company, for instance, is turned from a story of inattentive financial management into a senseless betrayal of a friend.
Facebook: Where genius was 1% inspiration, 99% timeliness Ezra Klein 2010
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I appear to have caught the tone of this New York Times article from 1877, describing the idiom and the practice, in the context of the forcible ejection from the halls of government of one Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, for the offense of ... wearing trousers.
i'm making some wine from the grapes of wrath pecunium 2009
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Reports indicate Taylor did absolutely nothing to precipitate his ejection from the coffee shop where the event was being held.
Bob Cesca: When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women Bob Cesca 2010
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Reports indicate Taylor did absolutely nothing to precipitate his ejection from the coffee shop where the event was being held.
Bob Cesca: When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women Bob Cesca 2010
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Reports indicate Taylor did absolutely nothing to precipitate his ejection from the coffee shop where the event was being held.
Bob Cesca: When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women Bob Cesca 2010
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Reports indicate Taylor did absolutely nothing to precipitate his ejection from the coffee shop where the event was being held.
Bob Cesca: When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women Bob Cesca 2010
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Co-founder Eduardo Saverin's ejection from the company, for instance, is turned from a story of inattentive financial management into a senseless betrayal of a friend.
Facebook: Where genius was 1% inspiration, 99% timeliness Ezra Klein 2010
bilby commented on the word ejection
The Ejection Site is about the history and development of ejector seats in various kinds of vehicles.
January 30, 2010
bilby commented on the word ejection
BTW I love that site. Design is of course prehistoric-internet in style but the content - fascinating, obscure, and with a feel for the human element as well as the gear - is put together by someone who knows his stuff.
January 30, 2010