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Reject vs Inject - What's the difference?

reject | inject |

In lang=en terms the difference between reject and inject

is that reject is to refuse to accept while inject is to take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.

As verbs the difference between reject and inject

is that reject is to refuse to accept while inject is to push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

As a noun reject

is something that is rejected.

reject

English

(wikipedia reject)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To refuse to accept.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • Synonyms

    * (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny

    Antonyms

    * (refuse to accept) accept, take up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is rejected.
  • An unpopular person.
  • Synonyms

    * (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien

    inject

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
  • The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.
  • To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
  • Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
  • * Milton
  • Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.
  • To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
  • Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.
    to inject the blood vessels
  • To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
  • It's been a week since I stopped injecting , and I'm still in withdrawal.
  • (computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
  • * {{quote-usenet
  • , year=1996 , monthday=November 11 , author=David TaillĂ© , email=taille@calva.net , title=Getting Process information , id=MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr , group=comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 citation
    Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).
  • * {{quote-usenet
  • , year=1999 , monthday=August 23 , author=Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein , email=osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br , title=Java is Going to Be the Death of Java , id=001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr , group=comp.lang.java.advocacy citation
    As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2003 , author=Ryan Russell , title=Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box , chapter=The Thief No One Saw citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=146 , passage=A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2007 , author=Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen , title=XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense , chapter=XSS Theory citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=86 , passage=DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2010 , author=Andrew Moore , title=Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies , chapter=AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It citation , isbn=9780470539439 , page=410 , passage=The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.}}
  • (obsolete) To cast or throw; used with on .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • And mound inject on mound.