discharge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
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geography
government
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Etymology: From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.
Inflected forms:
form: discharges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discharging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discharged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discharged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: discharges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
pos: verb
examples: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. (1965, Amendment XXV)
O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
gloss: To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
pos: verb
examples: But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.
For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society.
How happy is his low degree, / How rich in humble poverty, is he, / Who leads a quiet country life; / Diſcharg'd of buſineſs, void of ſtrife, / And from the griping ſcrivener free?
gloss: To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
pos: verb
examples: If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.
gloss: To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
pos: verb
examples: The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.
gloss: To expel or let go.
pos: verb
examples: Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
gloss: To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
pos: verb
examples: They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
gloss: To release (an accumulated charge).
pos: verb
examples: GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
gloss: To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
pos: verb
examples: Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.
Grindal […] was discharged the government of his see.
gloss: To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
pos: verb
gloss: To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
pos: verb
gloss: To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
pos: verb
examples: to discharge a prisoner
gloss: To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
pos: verb
examples: discharge his pieces
I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.
gloss: To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
pos: verb
gloss: To unload a ship or another means of transport.
pos: verb
gloss: To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
pos: verb
examples: to discharge a cargo
gloss: To give forth; to emit or send out.
pos: verb
examples: A pipe discharges water.
gloss: To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
pos: verb
examples: He discharged a horrible oath.
gloss: To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
gloss: To prohibit; to forbid.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
obsolete
examples: That Richard Stevenson, Robert Calcott, and Richard Tyldesley, be discharged from farther restraint, giving good security to appear at this Board whensoever summoned, and not depart this city until full satisfaction be given
gloss: The act of expelling or letting go.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: care transition after discharge
gloss: The act of expelling or letting go.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: career transition after discharge
gloss: The material thus released.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)
a mucopurulent vaginal discharge
the cooling tower's discharge
gloss: The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: negligent discharge
gloss: The process of removing the load borne by something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of flowing out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of flowing out.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)
gloss: The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.
She [the Queen] was assisted in the discharge of her solemn functions by fourteen sacred women, one for each of the altars of Dionysus.
gloss: Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After having granted discharge from liability, the general meeting of shareholders may not demand for the company compensation for matters which it had knowledge of when granting discharge.
Derived words: dischargeable
dischargee
dischargement
discharger
nondischarging
redischarge
undischarged
afterdischarge
blue discharge
constructive discharge
corona discharge
discharge tube
dishonorable discharge
dishonourable discharge
electrical discharge machining
electric discharge
electrostatic discharge
gas discharge
glow discharge
honorable discharge
interdischarge
microdischarge
nasal discharge
partial discharge
partial discharge extinction voltage
partial discharge inception voltage
postdischarge
predischarge
streamer discharge
surface discharge
Townsend discharge
vaginal discharge
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: освобождаване
roman: osvoboždavane
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпускане
roman: izpuskane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 免職 /免职
roman: miǎnzhí
lang: Finnish
word: päästäminen
lang: German
word: Befreiung
lang: Greek
word: απόλυση
roman: apólysi
lang: Hindi
word: निष्कासन
roman: niṣkāsan
lang: Hungarian
word: kibocsátás
lang: Hungarian
word: elbocsátás
lang: Macedonian
word: ослободу́вање
roman: oslobodúvanje
lang: Māori
word: rukenga
lang: Norwegian
word: utvisning
lang: Portuguese
word: dispensa
lang: Russian
word: увольне́ние
roman: uvolʹnénije
lang: Spanish
word: liberación
lang: Spanish
word: libramiento
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تخلیه
roman: tahliye