different between eject vs unload

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

From un- +? load.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?l??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?lo?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Verb

unload (third-person singular simple present unloads, present participle unloading, simple past and past participle unloaded)

1. (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).

   to unload a ship; to unload a camel

2. (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.

   to unload bales of hay from a truck

3. (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
4. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express; to unburden oneself of.
   • 1984, John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game

     […] who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.

5. (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
   • 1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook

     When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.

6. (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
7. (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.

   to unload unprofitable stocks

8. (transitive, aviation) To reduce the vertical load factor on an airplane's wing or other lifting surface, typically by pitching downwards toward the ground to decrease angle of attack and reduce the amount of lift generated.
9. (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
10. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
11. (transitive) To draw the charge from.

    to unload a gun

Derived terms

• unloader

Translations

References

• unload in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.