<B>ejection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the action of ejecting. <BR> <I>Ex. A landlord's ejection of a tenant always creates sympathy for the tenant.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being ejected. <BR> <I>Ex. His ejection from the hall caused a riot.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>something ejected. <BR> <I>Ex. Lava is a volcanic ejection.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ejectioncapsule">
<B>ejection capsule,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a detachable cockpit or cabin that can be ejected and parachuted from an airplane. </DL>
<A NAME="ejectionseat">
<B>ejection seat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an airplane seat that in case of danger can be instantly ejected with its occupant into the air, where they are automatically separated and parachuted to earth. </DL>
<A NAME="ejective">
<B>ejective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> ejecting; serving to eject. </DL>
<A NAME="ejectment">
<B>ejectment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the action of ejecting; a dispossessing; an ousting. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) an action to recover a person's real property that has been wrongfully withheld. </DL>
<A NAME="ejector">
<B>ejector, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> person or thing that ejects. </DL>
<A NAME="ejectorseat">
<B>ejector seat,</B> <B>=ejection seat.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ejidal">
<B>ejidal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an ejido or ejidos. <BR> <I>Ex. The ejido in modern times is not economic and the ejidal system is faltering (Canadian Forum).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ejidatario">
<B>ejidatario, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Spanish.) a farmer belonging to an ejido. </DL>
<A NAME="ejido">
<B>ejido, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Mexico) a cooperative or communal farm. </DL>
<A NAME="ejusdemgeneris">
<B>ejusdem generis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) of the same kind. </DL>
<A NAME="ekakafnium">
<B>ekakafnium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tentative name given to element 104. </DL>
<A NAME="ekalead">
<B>ekalead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hypothetical chemical element beyond the transactinide series. <BR> <I>Ex. Element 114, which we have mentioned so often, proves to be homologous with that very stable element lead; it can therefore be called "ekalead," using the terminology of Dmitri Mendeleev, the originator of the periodic table (Glenn T. Seaborg and Justin L. Bloom).</I> </DL>
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<B>eke</B> (1), transitive verb, <B>eked,</B> <B>eking.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic and Dialect.) to increase; enlarge; lengthen. <BR><I>expr. <B>eke out,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to add to; increase; help; supplement. </I> <I>Ex. The clerk eked out his regular wages by working in the evenings. ... material in print eked out with scraps of hearsay (New Statesman).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to barely manage to make (a living). <BR> <I>Ex. He eked out a living doing various odd jobs.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to come by with difficulty of pains. <BR> <I>Ex. The champ, by the way, ... eked out another shoddy win (Esquire).</I> </DL>
<B>ekistician, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies ekistics. </DL>
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<B>ekistics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of communities and settlements of people, especially with a view to improving them by extensive planning. <BR> <I>Ex. Although ekistics is a more compact term than "science of human settlements," it still derives from the "settling down" root, which to many of us seems all wrong now that the tendency is to move more and settle less (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
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<B>ekka, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, one-horse vehicle used in India. </DL>
<A NAME="ekklesia">
<B>ekklesia, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sias,</B> <B>-siae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Also, <B>Ekklesia.</B> all those who have accepted the call to God's service. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=ecclesia </B>(def. 1). </DL>
<A NAME="ekmanlayer">
<B>Ekman layer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a layer of ocean water whose flow is at right angles to the wind's directions. <BR> <I>Ex. Thus the wind in the southern half of our square basin representing the North Atlantic transports water to the north in the thin Ekman layer (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>ekpwele, </B>noun. <B>=ekuele.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ekuele">
<B>ekuele, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the unit of money of Equatorial Guinea, introduced in 1973, replacing the peseta. </DL>
<A NAME="el">
<B>el, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) an elevated railroad. <BR> <I>Ex. The crowded "el" train grinds to a halt at Friedrichstrasse station (Alfred L. Malabre).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=ell </B>(1). <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=ell </B>(2). </DL>
<A NAME="el">
<B>El, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a god of the Canaanites. </DL>
<A NAME="elaborate">
<B>elaborate, </B>adjective, verb, <B>-rated,</B> <B>-rating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> worked out with great care; having many details; complicated. <BR> <I>Ex. an elaborate banquet. The scientists made elaborate plans for landing a man on the moon. He read Shakespeare, and made an elaborate study of his method (John Morley).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to work out with great care; add details to. <BR> <I>Ex. The inventor spent months in elaborating his plans for a new engine.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make with labor; produce. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to talk, write, or plan in great detail; give added details. <BR> <I>Ex. The witness was asked to elaborate on one of his statements.</I> adv. <B>elaborately.</B> noun <B>elaborateness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="elaboration">
<B>elaboration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process of elaborating. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being elaborated. <DD><B> 3. </B>something elaborated. </DL>
<A NAME="elaborative">
<B>elaborative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> elaborating; serving to elaborate. </DL>
<A NAME="elaborator">
<B>elaborator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who elaborates. </DL>
<A NAME="elabrate">
<B>elabrate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) without a distinct labrum or upper lip. </DL>
<A NAME="elaeopten">
<B>elaeopten, </B>noun. <B>=eleoptene.</B></DL>
<A NAME="elaeoptene">
<B>elaeoptene, </B>noun. <B>=eleoptene.</B></DL>
<A NAME="elaine">
<B>Elaine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Arthurian Legend.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a beautiful maiden who died for love of Sir Lancelot. <DD><B> 2. </B>the mother of Sir Galahad. </DL>
<A NAME="elamite">
<B>Elamite, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of Elam, an ancient country and empire in what is now western Iran. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of the Elamites, used from about 2500 B.C. to A.D. 100, and believed to be unrelated to any other known language. <BR> <I>Ex. The trilingual inscription from Behistun in Persia ... was in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian (Listener).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of Elam, its people, or their language. </DL>
<A NAME="elan">
<B>elan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> enthusiasm or liveliness; spirit. <BR> <I>Ex. It was his revolutionary elan, his ruthless use of organized force, that made history (New Yorker).</I> (SYN) verve. </DL>
<A NAME="eland">
<B>eland, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, heavy, African antelope with twisted horns. It is the largest antelope found in Africa. <BR> <I>Ex. The eland is the biggest of antelopes. Its height is frequently six feet to the shoulder top, and occasionally more ... Elands are harmless, and easily tamed (C. S. Stokes).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elanet">
<B>elanet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of small hawks or kites having weak bills and claws, short, square tails, and long, pointed wings, found in tropical and temperate climates. </DL>
<A NAME="elanvital">
<B>elan vital,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the vital or creative force in life. According to the French philosopher Henri Bergson, it is responsible for the growth and evolution of all living things. </DL>
<A NAME="elaphine">
<B>elaphine, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or resembling the red deer. </DL>
<A NAME="elapid">
<B>elapid, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> belonging to a family of tropical snakes including many of the well-known poisonous varieties, such as the cobra, mamba, and coral snake. <DD><I>noun </I> a snake of this family. </DL>
<A NAME="elapse">
<B>elapse, </B>intransitive verb, <B>elapsed,</B> <B>elapsing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to slip away; glide by; pass. <BR> <I>Ex. Many hours elapsed while he slept.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elapsedtime">
<B>elapsed time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the time it takes a boat, automobile, or other racing vehicle to travel over a course without any adjustments, as for handicapping. </DL>
<A NAME="elas">
<B>ELAS</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Hellenic People's Army of Liberation of World War II (Greek, <I>Ellinikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos</I>). </DL>
<A NAME="elasmobranch">
<B>elasmobranch, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any one of a class of fishes whose skeletons are formed of cartilage and whose gills are thin and platelike; chondrichthian. Sharks and rays are elasmobranchs. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to the elasmobranchs. </DL>
<B>elasmosaur, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of large marine reptiles with very long necks, small heads, and paddlelike limbs and tail that lived during the Cretaceous period in North America. </DL>
<A NAME="elastase">
<B>elastase, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enzyme occurring in the pancreatic juice that digests elastin. </DL>
<A NAME="elastic">
<B>elastic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that can be stretched or pressed together and then return to its original shape, position, or size. <BR> <I>Ex. Toy balloons, sponges, and steel springs are elastic.</I> (SYN) resilient. <DD><B> 2. </B>springing back; springy. <BR> <I>Ex. an elastic step.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) recovering easily and quickly; buoyant. <BR> <I>Ex. Her elastic spirits kept her from being discouraged for long.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) easily changed to suit conditions; flexible; adaptable. <BR> <I>Ex. an elastic conscience. Mother has an elastic schedule.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a tape, cloth, cord, or the like, woven partly of rubber. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=rubber band.</B> </DL>
