Eject vs Discard - What's the difference?
eject | discard |
To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
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To throw out or remove forcefully.
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(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.
A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
(psychology) (by analogy with subject and object ) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
English ergative verbs
English heteronyms
to throw away, to reject.
* I. Taylor
(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
* Jonathan Swift
In transitive terms the difference between eject and discard
is that eject is to cause (something) to come out of a machine while discard is to throw away, to reject.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)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.
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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 outDerived terms
* ejectable * ejectorNoun
eject (not used in the plural )- 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)discard
English
Verb
(en verb)- A man discards the follies of boyhood.
- They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.