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traject en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/

Etymology

From Latin trāiectus, from trāiciō: compare French trajet.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
    • What notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, Which trades to Venice. c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
  2. (obsolete) The act of trajecting; trajection.
  3. (obsolete) A trajectory.
    • a mental traject from world to world 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
trajects Number=Plur lexicographic

traject en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/

Etymology

From Latin trāiectus, from trāiciō: compare French trajet.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To throw or cast through, over, or across.
    • [H]is Beams have much less of the Atmosphere to Traject in their Passage to our Eyes 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
trajects Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
trajecting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trajected Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trajected Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

shy · launch · toss · chunk · whop · pick · sling · yeet · hurl · precipitate · fling · peck · slight · heave · dash · jerk · peg · cook · cast · lob · whang · whip · dump · fling · traject · chuck · hield · throw · warp · hurtle · feck · thrill · bung · skew · pitch · huck · wing · project · quoit · hoy · hurl