| 释义 |
ejector|ɪˈdʒɛktə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -or, upon the analogy of L. agent-nouns in -or.]
1. a. gen. One who ejects. lit. and fig. See eject v. 1, 2.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. i. §17. 70 The ejectors should show better proofe than the ancient possessours. 1645J. Bond Occasus Occid. 25, I find that sin branded as an Ejector, as an Exiler, not only of Persons, but of whole Churches. 1657J. Goodwin Triers Tried To Rdr. 2 Two Apocryphall Orders of Commissioned Officers..known by the names of Triers, and Ejectors. 1831Syd. Smith Speeches Wks. 1859 II. 218/1 The merciless ejector..will be restrained within the limits of decency and humanity. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 494 The venomous slaver..must be carried back to the face of the foul-breathed ejector.
b. Law. The person who ejects another from his holding. casual ejector: see casual.
1651W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 191 If a third person eject him against Right, he shall recover damages against the Ejector. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 200 The lessee had no other remedy against the ejector but in damages. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius II. 680 The parties, viz. the plaintiff, and the defendant, the ejector, usually termed the casual ejector, are fictitious persons. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §154 The result of violent, clandestine, or precarious taking from the ejector himself.
2. Applied to various portions of machinery, etc. serving the purpose of ejecting; e.g. an appliance for discharging empty cartridge cases from a breech-loader; a contrivance for ejecting the ashes from the stoke-hole of a marine engine; an apparatus for discharging the contents of sewers by means of compressed air, etc. Also attrib., as in ejector-condenser, ejector gun, ejector rifle, ejector-sewer; ejector seat Aeronaut. = ejection seat.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Ejector-condenser (steam-engine), a form of condenser worked by the exhaust steam from the cylinder. 1881Greener Gun 128 The ejector is acted upon through its rear claw, that nearest its pivot. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 57/2 Egg-shaped Isaac Shone's House Ejector Sewers. 1887Daily News 25 Oct. 5/2 Of these ejectors there are eight, placed in pairs in different parts of the town. 1892W. W. Greener Breech-loader 42 Fine guns and ejector guns cannot be purchased under {pstlg}35. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 636 The Society's hammerless ejector rook rifle. 1920G. Burrard Notes on Sporting Rifles 68 Spare fore sights, extractors in the case of ejector-rifles. 1945Flight 15 Nov. 524/1 Two types of German pilot-ejector seats. 1948Flight 22 July 100/1 There are no known reports of a pilot getting out of the Vampire. To fit an ejector seat now would be a major operation. 1955Times 6 July 10/6 Lieutenant-Commander Rickell used his ejector seat to bale out. |