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Eject vs Banish - What's the difference?

eject | banish |

As verbs the difference between eject and banish

is that eject is to compel (a person or persons) to leave while banish is (label) to send someone away and forbid that person from returning .

As a noun eject

is a button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine or eject can be (psychology) (by analogy with subject and object ) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness.

eject

English

Usage notes

The physiological sense always uses pronunciation stressed on the first syllable (), either pronunciation is used for the other senses.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
  • * 2012 , August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'
  • 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.
  • To throw out or remove forcefully.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=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.}}
  • (US) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
  • To project oneself from an aircraft.
  • To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
  • To come out of a machine.
  • Synonyms

    * boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, toss, turf out, oust * (throw out forcefully) throw out * send off (UK ) * * (project oneself from an aircraft) bail out * (come out of a machine) come out

    Derived terms

    * ejectable * ejector

    Noun

    eject (not used in the plural )
  • A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
  • When the tape stops, press eject.

    Usage notes

    * Eject in this sense is used without an article, and is often capitalised ("press EJECT") as it is marked on many such buttons, or enclosed in quotation marks ("press 'eject'").

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (psychology) (by analogy with subject and object ) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
  • English ergative verbs English heteronyms

    banish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
  • #(with simple direct object)
  • #:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
  • #
  • #:He was banished from the kingdom.
  • #*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 15, author=Felicity Cloake, work=Guardian
  • , title= How to cook the perfect nut roast , passage=The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.}}
  • #
  • #*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
  • #*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
  • #
  • #*, II.10:
  • #*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.
  • #*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
  • #*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
  • To expel, especially from the mind.
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