Meaning of "eject" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EJECT

From Latin ejicere, from jacere to throw.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF EJECT

eject  [ɪˈdʒɛkt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EJECT

Eject is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb eject in English.

WHAT DOES EJECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ejection

Ejection may refer to the following: ▪ Ejection seat, safety device typically used to escape an aircraft in-flight. ▪ Ejection, the act of officially removing someone from a game. ▪ Acoustic droplet ejection, a method of moving fluid using ultrasound. ▪ Coronal mass ejection, ejection of material from a sun's corona. ▪ Ejection fraction, the fraction of blood pumped with each heart beat. ▪ Ejecta, particles ejected from an impact crater or volcanic eruption. ▪ In computing, when removable media is physically pushed out of a floppy disk drive or optical disc drive, or more generally disconnected. ▪ Great Ejection, an event in England in 1662 when non-conforming ministers lost their positions.

Definition of eject in the English dictionary

The first definition of eject in the dictionary is to drive or force out; expel or emit. Other definition of eject is to compel to leave; evict; dispossess. Eject is also to dismiss, as from office.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO EJECT

PRESENT

Present

I eject

you eject

he/she/it ejects

we eject

you eject

they eject

Present continuous

I am ejecting

you are ejecting

he/she/it is ejecting

we are ejecting

you are ejecting

they are ejecting

Present perfect

I have ejected

you have ejected

he/she/it has ejected

we have ejected

you have ejected

they have ejected

Present perfect continuous

I have been ejecting

you have been ejecting

he/she/it has been ejecting

we have been ejecting

you have been ejecting

they have been ejecting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I ejected

you ejected

he/she/it ejected

we ejected

you ejected

they ejected

Past continuous

I was ejecting

you were ejecting

he/she/it was ejecting

we were ejecting

you were ejecting

they were ejecting

Past perfect

I had ejected

you had ejected

he/she/it had ejected

we had ejected

you had ejected

they had ejected

Past perfect continuous

I had been ejecting

you had been ejecting

he/she/it had been ejecting

we had been ejecting

you had been ejecting

they had been ejecting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will eject

you will eject

he/she/it will eject

we will eject

you will eject

they will eject

Future continuous

I will be ejecting

you will be ejecting

he/she/it will be ejecting

we will be ejecting

you will be ejecting

they will be ejecting

Future perfect

I will have ejected

you will have ejected

he/she/it will have ejected

we will have ejected

you will have ejected

they will have ejected

Future perfect continuous

I will have been ejecting

you will have been ejecting

he/she/it will have been ejecting

we will have been ejecting

you will have been ejecting

they will have been ejecting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would eject

you would eject

he/she/it would eject

we would eject

you would eject

they would eject

Conditional continuous

I would be ejecting

you would be ejecting

he/she/it would be ejecting

we would be ejecting

you would be ejecting

they would be ejecting

Conditional perfect

I would have eject

you would have eject

he/she/it would have eject

we would have eject

you would have eject

they would have eject

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been ejecting

you would have been ejecting

he/she/it would have been ejecting

we would have been ejecting

you would have been ejecting

they would have been ejecting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you eject
we let´s eject
you eject

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to eject

Past participle

ejected

Present Participle

ejecting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «EJECT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «eject» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of eject

bail out · banish · bounce · chuck out · deport · discharge · dismiss · emit · escape · evict · exile · expel · fire · get out · get rid of · give off · jeff · kennet · kick out · oust · remove · sack · show someone the door · throw out · turf out · turn out

TRANSLATION OF EJECT

Find out the translation of eject to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of eject from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eject» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 逐出
• Translator English - Spanish: echar
• English: eject
• Translator English - Hindi: बेदखल
• Translator English - Arabic: إخراج
• Translator English - Russian: извлечь
• Translator English - Portuguese: expulsar
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রক্ষেপ করা
• Translator English - French: expulser
• Translator English - Malay: Mengeluarkan
• Translator English - German: hinauswerfen
• Translator English - Japanese: 追い出す
• Translator English - Korean: 몰아내다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyegah
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đuổi ra
• Translator English - Tamil: வெளியேற்றலாம்
• Translator English - Marathi: बाहेर काढा
• Translator English - Turkish: çıkarmak
• Translator English - Italian: espellere
• Translator English - Polish: wysunąć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: витягти
• Translator English - Romanian: scoate
• Translator English - Greek: εξαγωγή
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verwyder
• Translator English - Swedish: mata ut
• Translator English - Norwegian: løse ut

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EJECT»

Discover the use of eject in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eject and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject

With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city.

Paul Virilio, 2010

iPhoto 09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

iPhoto then asks if you'd like it to delete the original photos from the card after importing. 4. To remove the memory card from the card reader, first click the eject button next to the card's name in the source pane, and then eject the card from the ...

Adam Engst, 2009

Eject, Eject, Eject

Dee Phillips. Suddenly we saw a missile. It was heading straight for us. A heat- seeking missile! We were under attack. Eject Eject. Eject. I'm as cold as ice. It's so dark in this. Page 3.

Dee Phillips, 2014

Windows Administration at the Command Line for Windows ...

The default setting dismounts the media immediately and ejects it from the drive. EJECT Use the eject mode to eject media from the device. When the media is virtual, then the utility performs the equivalent of ejecting the media from the device; ...

John Paul Mueller, 2007

Mac OS X Help Line, Tiger Edition

TAKE NOTE Eject Options Mac OS X offers numerous choices for ejecting and unmounting devices (such as CDs, DVDs, and external hard drives). Eject Menu Extra.You can install and use the Eject Menu Extra (located in /System/Library/ ...

Ted Landau, Dan Frakes, 2005

F-4 Phantom Pilot's Flight Operating Manual

For most conditions requiring ejection, it is the pilot's responsibility to give the Eject command and then re— main with the airplane until the R10 has ejected. The reason for this is two fold; to avoid injury to the RIO and/or damage of his canopy ...

Periscope Film Com, 2007

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

Disks In, Disks Out The instant you begin dragging a disk icon, the Trash icon on the Dock changes form, as though to reassure the novice that dragging a disk icon there will only eject the disk. As you drag, the wastebasket icon morphs into a ...

David Pogue, 2009

The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas ...

Ad. Eject. 2 Ed. 34. 13 East, 489. S. C. and see 7 Durnf. and • Run. Eject. 2 Ed. 44 , 5, &c. Ad. East, 727. Eject. 2 Ed. 35, &c. and see 1 Barn. & « Ad. Eject. 2 Ed. Chap. VI. 2 Sel. Ores. 238. 2 Dowl. & Ryl. 373. S. C. Pr. 213. 216. Port, 532, 3. ' Kun.

William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, 1828

Mastering Mac OS X

Eject Disks Another type oficon we haven't discussed much is the disk icon, which appears whenever you insert a removable disk into a drive that's attached to your Mac. That includes CDs or DVDs that you place in your Mac's built-in disk  ...

Todd Stauffer, Kirk McElhearn, 2006

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

The instant you begin dragging a disk icon, the Trash icon on the Dock changes form, as though to reassure the novice that dragging a disk icon there will only eject.As you drag, the wastebasket icon morphs into a giant-sized Eject logo ( which ...

David Pogue, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EJECT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eject is used in the context of the following news items.

The way ahead

All sides insist that their aim is not to eject Greece from the euro, but rather to find a way to keep it in. But the more honest European politicians ... «The Economist, Jul 15»

Man killed in mid-air crash was minor league player for Braves

Aaron Johnson — who is not related to the victims — managed to eject before the two aircraft hit each other. Joseph Johnson, a pitcher, was ... «WPXI Pittsburgh, Jul 15»

UK consortium proposes mission to provide five-day warning of …

When the Sun flares, it does not necessarily eject large amounts of coronal mass. However, when a particularly large eruption occurs, the ... «Gizmag, Jul 15»

These handsome plants are really villains

Each plant can bear up to 800 tiny seeds in pods that burst explosively when ripe to eject the seeds up to 20 feet away. Further, these seeds ... «Coos Bay World, Jul 15»

New York City's illiberal effort to silence Donald Trump

That case actually got to federal court, where a district judge, Nina Gershon, forbade the city to try to eject the Brooklyn Museum from its ... «New York Post, Jul 15»

Grand Jury Hands Up Criminal Charges in Maine Hayride Death

Authorities said mechanical issues caused the vehicle to malfunction, careen down a hill, and eject its passengers. More than 20 people were ... «NECN, Jul 15»

Honda Recalls Another 4.5 Million Cars For Air Bag Issue

The airbags could deploy too forcefully and eject shrapnel onto passengers. The issue has reportedly claimed eight deaths globally. «Nasdaq, Jul 15»

Woolwich mayor will seek court OK to keep job after expense mistakes

The basis of his complaint was that the township was compelled by the act to eject Shantz from her seat for the violations and, along with the ... «Waterloo Record, Jul 15»

American Police Fire More Shots in 1 Day Than Some Countries Do …

Warmer ocean temperatures stress corals, causing them to eject symbiotic algae crucial for their survival. While recent research has suggested ... «Mic, Jul 15»

VGS – Batman: Arkham Knight Review – Be The Batman

Dive from the top of a skyscraper, land in a moving batmobile, race through the streets of gotham, eject out, land on a Riddler Informant, and ... «640 Toronto News, Jul 15»