discharge
Definitions
verb
- (tr) to release or allow to go ⇒
the hospital discharged the patient
- (tr) to dismiss from or relieve of duty, office, employment, etc
- to fire or be fired, as a gun
- to pour forth or cause to pour forth ⇒
the boil discharges pus
- (tr) to remove (the cargo) from (a boat, etc); unload
- (tr) to perform (the duties of) or meet (the demands of an office, obligation, etc) ⇒
he discharged his responsibilities as mayor
- (tr) to relieve oneself of (a responsibility, debt, etc)
- (intr) physics
- to lose or remove electric charge
- to form an arc, spark, or corona in a gas
- to take or supply electrical current from a cell or battery
- (tr) law to release (a prisoner from custody, etc)
- (tr) to remove dye from (a fabric), as by bleaching
- (intr) (of a dye or colour) to blur or run
- (tr) architecture
- to spread (weight) evenly over a supporting member
- to relieve a member of (excess weight) by distribution of pressure
noun
- a person or thing that is discharged
- dismissal or release from an office, job, institution, etc
- the document certifying such release
- the fulfilment of an obligation or release from a responsibility or liability ⇒
honourable discharge
- the act of removing a load, as of cargo
- a pouring forth of a fluid; emission
- the act of firing a projectile
- the volley, bullet, missile, etc, fired
- law
- a release, as of a person held under legal restraint
- an annulment, as of a court order
- physics
- the act or process of removing or losing charge or of equalizing a potential difference
- a transient or continuous conduction of electricity through a gas by the formation and movement of electrons and ions in an applied electric field
- the volume of fluid flowing along a pipe or a channel in unit time
- the output rate of a plant or piece of machinery, such as a pump
Alternative Forms
disˈchargeable adjective disˈcharger nounSynonyms
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dismiss,
sack,
fire,
remove,
expel,
discard,
oust,
eject,
cashier,
give (someone) the boot give (someone) the sack give (someone) his or her P45 kennet
jeff,
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carry out,
perform,
fulfil,
accomplish,
do,
effect,
realize,
observe,
implement,
execute,
carry through,
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pour forth,
release,
empty,
leak,
emit,
dispense,
void,
gush,
ooze,
exude,
give off,
excrete,
disembogue,
Usage examples
Then at the end of the fifth week a date was set for his discharge , to be the following Friday.
, A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990 (1990)McSorley was charged and convicted of assault with a weapon and given an 18-month conditional discharge.
CBC (2004)The decision to agree a settlement yesterday led to the discharge of a scheduled two-day civil trial.
Glasgow Herald (2001)Breast symptoms: there were several reports of swollen breasts with discharge or even copious lactation.
, Coming Off Tranquillizers and Sleeping Pills (1991)