traject

To throw or cast through, over, or across.

Noun

  1. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
    • What notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, Which trades to Venice. - c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
  2. The act of trajecting; trajection.
  3. A trajectory.
    • a mental traject from world to world - 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

Origin

From Latin trāiectus, from trāiciō: compare French trajet.

Forms

trajects

Verb

  1. To throw or cast through, over, or across.
    • [H]is Beams have much less of the Atmosphere to Traject in their Passage to our Eyes - 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects...

    Synonyms: fling hurl bung cast chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project

Forms

trajects trajecting trajected