Talk:eject

Both definitions for “Eject” and “Jettison” are missing the fundamental difference that an external item is jettisoned and an internal item is ejected. “Jettison the canopy and eject the pilot.”

RFD discussion: July–August 2018

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eject

"(uncountable) A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine." Should words used as labels for buttons and keys (other examples include Delete and rewind) be included as distinct noun senses? — SGconlaw (talk) 22:19, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Delete. I don't think we should be getting into details about the function of specific buttons- ejecting could mean a lot of different things on a lot of different devices, and eject buttons can do things other than ejecting. A good example of where this could lead is with the the return key, which originally caused the carriage of a typewriter to return to the position for typing at the beginning of the line. Nowadays "return" can do just about anything a programmer wants it to do. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:09, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Delete: Daniel Carrero created a lot of such "button" entries (play, pause, etc.) some years ago; I referred a couple for deletion but the RFDs failed. His may have been capitalised (Play, Pause...): I don't recall. Of course any button can be labelled with any verb: the word is better read as a verb than as a noun meaning "the kind of button that this button is". Equinox ◑ 23:15, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Another example: pressing d on a typewriter will produce the letter "d" on the page, and the default on a computer keyboard is for it to produce the character "d", but I can switch keyboards on my Mac so that it will produce: δ,ד,د,द,д,տ,ㄷ. On a musical keyboard it's the second white key in the octave and produces the note "d", but if I'm running GarageBand, it has a virtual keyboard that has the "d" key mapped to "e" on the keyboard. In various games, the "d" can cause all kinds of things to happen, depending on the game.

Besides, not every machine uses an eject button for ejecting. If some other key is mapped to that function, is it the eject button? Chuck Entz (talk) 00:07, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Delete per above. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 23:16, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Delete per above. - -sche (discuss) 17:33, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

See a previous "button discussion" at Talk:Start. Other "button nouns" include fire, play, pause/Pause, stop, rewind (arguable!), fast forward, but oddly not record: I suspect Mr Carrero was a bit young for cassette tape. Equinox ◑ 17:38, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 17:54, 5 August 2018 (UTC)