eject

1. to force someone to leave a particular place: 2. to order a sports player…

Meaning of

eject

in English


eject


verb


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iˈdʒekt

/


us

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/

iˈdʒekt

/


A

number

of

fans

had been ejected

from

the

bar

for

causing


trouble

.


[

T

]


US


(


UK


send off

)


[

I

]

to come out of a

machine

when a

button

is

pressed

, or to make something do this:


How do you eject the

tape

?


The

coffee


machine


suddenly

ejected a

handful

of

coins

.


Emitting and ejecting


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Boarding and alighting from modes of transport

(Definition of

eject

from the

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus


© Cambridge University Press)

eject

| American Dictionary


eject


verb


[

T

]


us

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/

ɪˈdʒekt

/

to

force

someone to

leave

a

particular


place

, or to

send

out something

quickly

and often with

force

:


It was

difficult

to eject

squatters

from the

abandoned


building

.

A

player

who is ejected during a

game

is told to

leave

the

playing


area

by the

referee

because the

player

has done something

wrong

:


Very

seldom

do you

see

any

player

get ejected from a

playoff


game

in

football

and

baseball

.

(Definition of

eject

from the

Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary


© Cambridge University Press)

Examples

of


eject

eject


The mass of the plume slab is determined by the amount of material ejected from the target when thermalized by the electron beam.


This fluid flows around the sphere equator and is ejected as a jet, followed by a vortex jump, into the downstream slug.


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Somewhere between 80 to 90% of the blood ejected by the right ventricle goes through the duct into the descending thoracic aorta with minimal resistance.


A study of the parameters of particles ejected from a laser plasma.


The peers immediately objected to such tactics and ejected the seamen.


However, a few angular blocks, weighing about 30 kg each, have been ejected several metres out of the pit.


The aspirated cytoplasm and the spermatozoon were then gently ejected into the cytoplasm and the needle was withdrawn.


Spacecraft can be built and ejected from a solar system at a level of technology compatible with our own.


The carbon vapour ejected into the circumstellar medium by the carbon-rich giant stars is made by polyynes chains.


Suddenly the facsimile machine pulses into action, chirping and buzzing, ejecting a printed page 30 seconds later.


A droplet extrusion system using either a thermal or a piezoelectric technique to

eject

sample droplets for analysis of chemical composition.


This only fails for field lines ejected from the sheet, which form a smaller portion of the volume.


The absorbed laser energy is transferred to fast electrons, which interact with the foil and are partially ejected from the foil surfaces.


The absorbed laser energy is transferred to fast electrons, which penetrate in the foil and are par tially ejected from the foil rear.


With the continued stress of ejected systolic volume over the other leaflet, it would tend to become fibrotic and calcified.


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Translations of

eject

in Chinese (Traditional)
(用武力)驅逐,逐出,趕出, 將(犯規的運動員)罰下場, (緊急情況下連坐椅一起從飛機中)彈射出來…


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in Chinese (Simplified)
(用武力)驱逐,逐出,赶出, 将(犯规的运动员)罚下场, (紧急情况下连坐椅一起从飞机中)弹射出来…


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in Spanish
expulsar, eyectarse, eyectar(se)…


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in Portuguese
expulsar, ejetar-se, ejetar(-se)…


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( kuvvet kullanarak)kovmak, atmak, defetmek…


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éjecter, expulser, (s’)éjecter…


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vyhodit, vystěhovat, katapultovat (se)…


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smide ud, bortvise, skyde sig ud med katapult…


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mengusir, melontarkan diri…


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ดันออกมาหรือถูกขับไล่, ดีดตัวจากเครื่องบิน…


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đẩy ra, bật dù nhảy ra…


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wyrzucać, usuwać, wysuwać (się)…


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halau, melentingkan diri…


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hinauswerfen, den Schleudersitz betätigen…


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mate ut, ta ut, kaste ut…


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выгонять, вынимать(ся), катапультировать…


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espellere, sfrattare, azionare il seggiolino eiettabile…


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