ejectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭ-jĕktʹ, IPA: /ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
• 韻: -ɛkt

動詞

eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)

1. (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.

   The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.

   Andrew was ejected from his apartment for not paying the rent.

   • 2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'‎, Guardian Unlimited:

     Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.

2. (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.

   In other news, a Montreal man was ejected from his car when he was involved in an accident.

   • 1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:

     The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

3. (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
4. (usually intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.

   The pilot lost control of the plane and had to eject.

   As the crippled jet spiralled down, the pilot pulled the escape handle, ejecting first his rear-seater, then himself.

5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.

   Press that button to eject the video tape.

6. (intransitive) To come out of a machine.

   I can't get this cassette to eject.

同意語

• (compel (someone) to leave): boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, oust, toss, turf out; see also Thesaurus:kick out
• (throw out forcefully): throw out
• (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): kick out, send off (UK), toss
• (forcefully project (oneself or others) from an aircraft): punch out
• (cause (something) to come out of a machine): remove
• (come out of a machine): come out

上位語

• (forcefully project (oneself or others) from an aircraft): bail out

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語源 2

From Latin ēiectum (“(that which is) thrown out”), from ēiciō (“to throw out”) (see Etymology 1). Coined by W. K. Clifford by analogy with subject and object.

発音

• enPR: ēʹjĕkt, IPA: /ˈiː.d͡ʒɛkt/
• 韻: -iːdʒɛkt

名詞

eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)

1. (psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness

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