to eject
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- verb
- /ɪˈdʒɛkt/
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eyectarse
- The pilot ejected safely, but I guess they just found debris of it.
The pilot ejected safely, but I guess they just found debris of it.
- The pilot ejected safely, but I guess they just found debris of it.
- He he told the story what it feels like to eject over a group of people that you just bombed and how that feels.
- Now, somehow a pilot was flying, it ejected, and then the plane is just continuing to fly.
Examples
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Prepare to eject.
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Do not eject until you are at 1,000 feet.
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To be really safe, they had to eject from the pod as well.
Fiction book (2000) -
If you're gonna eject, you need to do it now!
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I just ejected my escape pod.
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Before she can respond, he ejects from his seat and races toward the front.
Fiction book (1992) -
You have 30 seconds before you are ejected into lunar trajectory.
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Witnesses say pilot Hal Jordan ejected at the last possible second... ...before his jet crashed in the open desert.
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The pilot had to eject from the aircraft during the emergency landing.
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As the plane began to malfunction, the crew prepared to eject at a moment's notice.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
eject = e + ject
The meaning corresponds to Latin e- 'out' + -ject 'throw', so the sense 'force out' is conceptually transparent, but 'ject' is not a standalone English word and therefore not obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Eject comes from the parts ex- 'out' and -ject 'throw'. To eject from a plane is like being 'thrown out' quickly by an ejection seat or capsule, so the origin fits the emergency meaning.