Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
EJECT
exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release
(verb) eliminate (a substance); “combustion products are exhausted in the engine”; “the plant releases a gas”
squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject
(verb) cause to come out in a squirt; “the boy squirted water at his little sister”
eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out
(verb) put out or expel from a place; “The unruly student was excluded from the game”
eject
(verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)
(transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
(US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
(intransitive) To project oneself from an aircraft.
(transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
(intransitive) To come out of a machine.
Synonyms
• (compel (someone) to leave): boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, oust, toss, turf out; see also kick out
• (throw out forcefully): throw out
• (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): kick out, send off (UK), toss
• (cause (something) to come out of a machine): remove
• (project oneself from an aircraft): bail out
• (come out of a machine): come out
Etymology 2
Noun
eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)
(psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Source: Wiktionary
E*ject", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting.] Etym: [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.
2. (Law)
Definition: To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
Syn.
– To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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