Discard vs Omit - What's the difference?
discard | omit |
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 leave out or exclude.
To fail to perform.
(rare) To neglect or take no notice of.
In transitive terms the difference between discard and omit
is that discard is to throw away, to reject while omit is to fail to perform.As a noun discard
is anything discarded.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.