Ejection

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ejection \E*jec"tion\, n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. ['e]jection.]
     1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion;
        evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." --Eustace. "The
        ejection of a word." --Johnson.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from
        the body, particularly the excretions.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession;
        banishment.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ejection
       n 1: the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: {expulsion},
             {projection}, {forcing out}]
       2: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection
          of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion
          from school" [syn: {exclusion}, {expulsion}, {riddance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "ejection":
     banishment, bowshot, bullet, cannon, cashiering, clearance, conge,
     dejecta, dejection, dejecture, deportation, detachment, detonation,
     discard, discharge, disgorgement, disjunction, dismissal, disposal,
     disposition, dispossession, effluent, effusion, egesta, egestion,
     ejaculation, ejecta, ejectamenta, elimination, emission,
     eradication, eviction, excrement, excreta, excretes, excretion,
     exile, expatriation, expulsion, extravasate, extravasation,
     extrusion, exudate, exudation, firing, flow, flux, fusillade, gun,
     gunfire, gunshot, liquidation, ostracism, ouster, outburst,
     outlawing, outlawry, potshot, purge, removal, riddance, sacking,
     salvo, secretion, severance, shot, spray, stoneshot, suspension,
     tattoo, the boot, the bounce, the sack, throwing out, transudate,
     transudation, volley, waste, waste matter, withdrawal
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  EJECTION, n.  An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity.  It is
  also much used in cases of extreme poverty.