# inject, reject, eject...can you just ject? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 13, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261 "2005-07-13T00:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/1 "2005-07-13T00:45:30Z")
What is the etomology of “ject”? ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/2 "2005-07-13T00:48:30Z")
[jet](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jet) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/3 "2005-07-13T02:09:29Z")
“ject” comes from the Latin verb “to throw”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/4 "2005-07-13T02:18:34Z")
injected, inspected, rejected Sounds like all sorts of mean nasty things. Did they send you to the group W bench? ::runs away:: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/5 "2005-07-13T02:20:03Z")
> [@mrrealtime](#): > > What is the etomology of “ject”? You mean you don’t understand the subject? ---
**Author:** ![Nevermind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nevermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nevermind)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/6 "2005-07-13T03:22:13Z")
Its hard to be objective at a time like this. When all the rejects are objecting to the subject. Why subject yourself to such objectionable subjects? We should hit the eject buttons on the rejects and start on a new project. Costs to our mental stability are projected to be highly objectionable, but lets not feel too dejected. Time for my medication now. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/7 "2005-07-13T03:25:36Z")
It’s all just conjecture, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/8 "2005-07-13T04:18:55Z")
All this interjection is getting us away from the subject, and I have to object. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/9 "2005-07-13T05:24:31Z")
The trajectory this thread has taken will require abject adjectives to be described. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/10 "2005-07-13T05:24:36Z")
If I were the OP, I’d be feeling dejected about now. ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/11 "2005-07-13T11:52:40Z")
funny thread…thanks everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Eurograff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Eurograff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eurograff)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/12 "2005-07-13T19:05:23Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > injected, **inspected** , rejected I feel obliged to note the obvious, that the word “inspect” derives from the verb specere “to look at”, and not from jacere “to throw”. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/13 "2005-07-13T19:43:22Z")
I should think that that would require an abject apology. But maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/14 "2005-07-13T21:54:51Z")
As I’ve explained to my English 8 kids, there are base words and there are root words. Base words, like “know”, can have prefixes or suffixes attached or not. They stand on their own. Roots, like “ject”, _must_ have either a prefix, a suffix, or both, before it can be a coherent word. ---
**Author:** ![Nevermind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nevermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nevermind)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inject-reject-eject-can-you-just-ject/312261/15 "2005-07-15T02:15:10Z")
party-POOPerer 😛