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Charging vs Discharging - What's the difference?

charging | discharging |

As verbs the difference between charging and discharging

is that charging is present participle of charge while discharging is present participle of discharge.

As nouns the difference between charging and discharging

is that charging is an act or process of charging (as of a battery) while discharging is the act or process by which something is discharged.

charging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Present participle of charge.

    • Noun

  • (countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
  • (uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
    • Smith is called for charging , and the Nimrods will get the ball.

    discharging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process by which something is discharged.
  • * 2013 , Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)
    • From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings , bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.