Reject vs Interjection - What's the difference?
reject | interjection |
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
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An interruption; something interjected
As nouns the difference between reject and interjection
is that reject is something that is rejected while interjection is (grammar) an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.As a verb reject
is to refuse to accept.reject
English
(wikipedia reject)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, denyAntonyms
* (refuse to accept) accept, take upSynonyms
* (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alieninterjection
English
(wikipedia interjection)Noun
(en noun)- Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
(21) (a) ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
(21) (b) ?''Bill , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)