expeller

English

Etymology

expel + -er

Noun

expeller (plural expellers)

  1. Someone or something that expels.
    • 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:
      The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.
    1. A machine that removes most of the oil from oilseeds to form oil cake.

Translations

Middle French

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), borrowed from Latin expellō, expellere.

Verb

expeller

  1. to expel; to cast out

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

References

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expellō, expellere.

Verb

expeller

  1. to expel; to cast out

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • English: expel
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

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