different between eject vs defenestrate

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French éjecter, from Latin ?iectus, perfect passive participle of ?ici? (“to throw out”), or from ?iect?, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ?-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaci? (“to throw”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-j?kt?, IPA^(key): /??d??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)

1. (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
   • 2012, August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited, 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.

2. (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.

3. (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
4. (usually intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.

5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.

6. (intransitive) To come out of a machine.

Synonyms

• (compel (someone) to leave): boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, oust, toss, turf out; see also Thesaurus:kick out
• (throw out forcefully): throw out
• (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): kick out, send off (UK), toss
• (cause (something) to come out of a machine): remove
• (come out of a machine): come out

Hypernyms

• (forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft): bail out

Derived terms

• ejectable
• ejector

Related terms

• ejaculate
• ejaculation
• ejecta
• ejectamenta
• ejection
• ejective
• ejectment

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin ?iectum (“(that which is) thrown out”), from ?ici? (“to throw out”) (see Etymology 1). Coined by W. K. Clifford by analogy with subject and object.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??j?kt, IPA^(key): /?i?.d??kt/
• Rhymes: -i?d??kt

Noun

eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)

1. (psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness

References

English

Etymology

Back-formation from defenestration, from Latin de- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f?n?st?e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??f?n?st?e?t/

Verb

defenestrate (third-person singular simple present defenestrates, present participle defenestrating, simple past and past participle defenestrated)

1. (transitive) To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window; compare transfenestrate.
   • 1998 September 25, Lane Smith, quoted in "TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka", in Time for Kids:

     I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!

2. (transitive) To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
   • 1998, Barry J. Fraser and Kenneth George Tobin, International Handbook of Science Education, Volume 2,

     The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).

   • 2001, The Economist, Volume 381, Issues 8498-8501, Page 42,

     Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...
3. (computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a Windows operating system from a computer.
   • 1998 December 17, Darren Salt <[email protected]>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%[email protected]>, comp.sys.sinclair, Usenet [1]:

     This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,

     Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)

   • 2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News:

     ? Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.

   • 2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works,

     Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which mean either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.

Translations

References

• “defenestrate” in PC Magazine Encyclopedia.

See also

• Defenestration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Defenestrations of Prague on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

defenestrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of defenestrare
2. second-person plural imperative of defenestrare