Discard vs Dispense - What's the difference?
discard | dispense |
to throw away, to reject.
* I. Taylor
(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
* Jonathan Swift
To issue, distribute, or put out.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
* Dryden
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .
(obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
* , II.34:
* Macaulay
* Johnson
(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
* Spenser
* Gower
(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
* , II.xii:
As verbs the difference between discard and dispense
is that discard is to throw away, to reject while dispense is to issue, distribute, or put out.As nouns the difference between discard and dispense
is that discard is anything discarded while dispense is cost, expenditure.discard
English
Verb
(en verb)- A man discards the follies of boyhood.
- 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 alsoExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English heteronymsdispense
English
Verb
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- to dispense justice
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
- After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.
- It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .
- His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.
Derived terms
* dispensary * dispenserNoun
(en noun)- what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].