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Overboard vs Jettison - What's the difference?

overboard | jettison |

As an adjective overboard

is outside of a boat, in the water.

As an adverb overboard

is over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.

As a noun jettison is

collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

As a verb jettison is

to eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

overboard

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Outside of a boat, in the water

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
  • Excessively; too much.

    • Anagrams

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    jettison

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
  • (countable) The action of jettisoning items.

    • Synonyms

    * (items jettisoned): jetsam

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
    • The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
    The jettisoning of fuel tanks .
  • To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

    • Synonyms

    * (to let go or get rid of as being useless) chuck, discard, ditch, dump, junk, lose, scrap, toss * See also