Bail vs Discharge - What's the difference?

As a conjunction bail

is .

As a verb discharge is

to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

As a noun discharge is

(symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.

bail

English

(wikipedia bail)

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) verb .

Noun

(en noun)

Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.

A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

* Captain Cook

The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.

(obsolete) Custody; keeping.

* Spenser

Silly Faunus now within their bail .

Derived terms

* jump bail * out on bail

Verb

(en verb)

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.

(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.

to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier

(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

to bail water out of a boat

* Capt. J. Smith

buckets to bail out the water

(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

to bail a boat

* R. H. Dana, Jr.

By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.

To set free; to deliver; to release.

* Spenser

Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .

Derived terms

* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail out

Etymology 2

From a shortening of bail out, which from above.

Verb

(en verb)

(slang) To exit quickly.

With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .

* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:

The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .

(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .

* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky , page 78,

I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.

A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .

* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley, page 160,

More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.

* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191,

Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.

A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.

(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.

* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry , page 153,

But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.

A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.

Verb

(en verb)

To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) baillier.

Verb

(en verb)

(rare) To confine.

(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.

(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)

* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:

The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.

Anagrams

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discharge

English

Verb

(discharg)

To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 1

O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.

To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.

* Dryden

Discharged of business, void of strife.

* L'Estrange

In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

* Shakespeare

If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

* Macaulay

The order for Daly's attendance was discharged .

To expel or let go.

* H. Spencer

Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

* Shakespeare

They do discharge their shot of courtesy.

(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

* Shakespeare

Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.

* Milton

Grindal was discharged the government of his see.

# (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

# (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

to discharge a prisoner

To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

* Knolles

The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

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.

To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

To unload a ship or another means of transport.

To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

to discharge a cargo

To give forth; to emit or send out.

A pipe discharges water.

To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

He discharged a horrible oath.

(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Noun

(wikipedia discharge)
(symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology

the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance

* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1

Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge .

the act of expelling or letting go

(electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge

(medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital

(military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service

(hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second)