traject

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English

Etymology

Latin trāiectus, from trāiciō: compare French trajet.

Pronunciation

Noun

traject (plural trajects)

  1. (obsolete) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
    • 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      What notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, Which trades to Venice.
  2. (obsolete) The act of trajecting; trajection.
  3. (obsolete) A trajectory.
    • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. , London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
      a mental traject from world to world

Verb

traject (third-person singular simple present trajects, present participle trajecting, simple past and past participle trajected)

  1. (transitive) To throw or cast through, over, or across.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
    • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) , Oxford, Oxfordshire: H Hall, printer to the University, for Tho Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
      [H]is Beams have much less of the Atmosphere to Traject in their Passage to our Eyes

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin trājectus, from trājicēre; compare French trajet.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: tra‧ject

Noun

traject n (plural trajecten, diminutive trajectje n)

  1. route