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Discard vs Castaway - What's the difference?

discard | castaway |

As nouns the difference between discard and castaway

is that discard is anything discarded while castaway is (nautical) a shipwrecked sailor.

As a verb discard

is to throw away, to reject.

As an adjective castaway is

cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

discard

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to throw away, to reject.
  • * I. Taylor
    • A man discards the follies of boyhood.
  • (card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.

    Synonyms

    * cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything discarded.
  • A discarded playing card in a card game.

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    castaway

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
    • After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
  • Shipwrecked.
    • The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
    • Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .
  • A discarded person or thing.
    • This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
  • An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
    • These homeless people are society's castaways .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * cast away