reject

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   refuse to accept or acknowledge

   I reject the idea of starting a war

2. 2
   verb

   resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

   The patient's body rejected the liver of the donor.

3. 3
   verb

   To refuse to accept; to forswear.

   She even rejected my improved offer.

4. 4
   verb

   To refuse a romantic advance.

   I've been rejected three times this week.

5. 5
   noun

   Something that is rejected.

   Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.

6. 6
   noun

   A rejected defective product in a production line.

   In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion […] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.

7. 7
   noun

   the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

8. 8
   verb

   dismiss from consideration or a contest

Etymology

From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin reiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).