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ject

dʒekt

One throwing hand: the shot, the refusal, the screen

The picture The moment something in your hand is hurled away. Where it is thrown is the whole difference. ject leaves the hand and flies; cept reaches out and catches what flew.

Word roots

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  1. thrown back

    They rejected my application.

    ðeɪ rɪˈdʒektɪd maɪ ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən

    They turned my application down.

    The paperwork you sent in comes flying straight back at you.

  2. thrown inside

    The nurse will inject it in your arm.

    ðə nɜːrs wɪl ɪnˈdʒekt ɪt ɪn jɔːr ɑːrm

    The nurse will give you the shot in your arm.

    A needle drives the medicine in through the skin of the arm.

  3. thrown forward

    Can you project the slides on the wall?

    kən juː prəˈdʒekt ðə slaɪdz ɒn ðə wɔːl

    Could you put the slides up on the wall?

    A beam of light is hurled across the room and lands on the wall as a picture.

    Light thrown forward gives a projector; a plan thrown forward gives a project.

  4. thrown out

    Press here and the card ejects.

    pres hɪr ənd ðə kɑːrd ɪˈdʒekts

    Push here and the card pops out.

    You push the button and the card is flicked out of the slot.

  5. thrown down underneath

    Let's not change the subject.

    lets nɑːt tʃeɪndʒ ðə ˈsʌbdʒɪkt

    Let's stay on topic.

    The board the talk is resting on — thrown down underneath it beforehand.

    sub (under) + ject — what is laid down under the talk is the subject.

All of it in one picture

ject is a thing leaving your hand. Throw back what came to you and it is rejection; throw it in under the skin and it is an injection; throw light forward at a wall and it is projection. Throw it out and it is ejected; what was thrown down under the conversation is the subject. Five words, but the moment is always the same — only the direction of the throw changes.

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