ejaculate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ē-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti
Proto-Italic *jīkjō
Proto-Italic *jakjōder.
Latin iaciō
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin iaculus
Latin iaculum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin iaculor
Latin ēiaculor
Latin ēiaculātusbor.
English ejaculate
Borrowed from Latin ēiaculātus, perfect active participle of ēiaculor (“to hurl, shoot out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from ē (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaciō (“to throw, to hurl”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: ejaculates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ejaculating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ejaculated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ejaculated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ejaculates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ſtrong, tho' ſubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.
gloss: To say abruptly.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: Vigors almost bounded on the pavement at the mention of the name; and he ejaculated, "It is he of whom I am in search ! But why do you ask? Is it possible that—"
Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses. "Aiyah!" she ejaculated.
—Half a crown, Stephen responded. I daresay he needs it to sleep somewhere.
—Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated, professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does.
"We're not going to use magic?" Ron ejaculated loudly.
gloss: To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.
gloss: Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
specifically
transitive
examples: Men can ejaculate between 0.1 and 10 milliliters of semen on average.
With a groan, he ejaculated on his abdomen.
[I]n controlled studies some men have been observed to ejaculate but not have orgasm or have orgasm but are unable to ejaculate.
The knowledge that some women ejaculate at the moment of orgasm was, like many other important aspects of sexuality, buried by Puritanism and patriarchy.
However, it would be highly useful if the ejaculated spermatozoa could be successfully cryopreserved and the frozen-thawed spermatozoa used for in vitro fertilization, since this would allow the genetically valuable rats to be maintained alive rather than sacrificed.
Bulls, rams and boars have the biggest testes among the larger domestic animals, so they would be expected to produce and ejaculate more sperms than others with smaller testes.
Rather, these men prefer an erotic exhibition – an uninhibited display of ejaculating semen onto themselves or someone else.
gloss: To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Porn teaches men that sex is a completely selfish act, where the other party has no humanity, she only exists to ejaculate him. The only pleasure she has is in pleasuring him.
gloss: Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically, semen or vaginal fluid ejected by a human being or other mammal during an ejaculation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If semen from two ejaculates obtained from one bull is mixed, and the conception rate for the mixed sample is compared with that obtained by the use of the two ejaculates independently, any tendency for the mixed sample's conception rate to be closer to that of either of the two individual ejaculates could be used as a sensitive measure of the relationship between the semen characteristics of the two ejaculates and conception rate.
The ejaculate usually spurts out as the prostate gland and surrounding muscles, as well as those at the base of the penis, contract at orgasm. In young males, the force of the spurt can be strong enough for the ejaculate to hit the upper chest; in older males, it may roll out or go an inch or two up the abdomen.
Female ejaculate is a clear liquid. Its consistency is akin to that of very light lubricant, but it is watery rather than slick. […] [B]oth women's and men's ejaculate is prostatic fluid (that is, both are created by the prostate).
A smaller mammal such as a dog has a sperm concentration of 300 000 000 per millilitre in an ejaculate of 8 ml in volume. Thus, each ejaculate will contain only 2 400 000 000 (24 × 10⁸).
Ejaculates are costly to produce for human males. Frequent ejaculation, especially more frequent than every other day, results in decreased sperm counts […], suggesting limits to sperm production. Men hardly seem limited by sperm production, however, given the apparent wastage of sperm. Sperm are continuously lost in the urine, and entire ejaculates are lost during nocturnal emissions and masturbation, although masturbatory ejaculates contain fewer sperm than do copulatory ejaculates […].
Synonyms: blow one's load
blow one's wad
blow a nut
breed
bust
bust a nut
come
cream
cum
ejaculate
explode
get off
go off
jizz
juice
nut
pop
shoot a rope
shoot off
shoot one's load
shoot one's wad
skeet
spray one's shorts
sprog
spoof
splooge
spooge
spunk
spurt
Related words: ejaculation
ejaculator
ejaculatory
eject
ejection
masturbate
semen
Derived words: ejaculate and evacuate
ejaculative
electroejaculate
interjaculate
unejaculated
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