Ejects vs Jects - What's the difference?
ejects | jects |
(eject)
To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
* 2012 , August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited,
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
A multi-story low-income housing development.
* 1991 , Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America , Anchor Books (1992), ISBN 0385265565,
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* 2011 , Garrett S. King, Something to Live For , Xlibris (2011), ISBN 9781456880934,
As a verb ejects
is third-person singular of eject.As a noun jects is
a multi-story low-income housing development.ejects
English
Verb
(head)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)jects
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)page 264:
- A few days later, Pharoah, now eleven, told a friend: "I worry about dying, dying at a young age, while you're little. I'll be thinking about I want to get of the jects .
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- Olander grew up around the “jects ,” but wasn't born there; he actually lived about two blocks away in a three-story house with his mother and younger siblings.
