Discharge vs Consummate - What's the difference?
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To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 1
To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
* Dryden
* L'Estrange
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
* Shakespeare
To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
* Macaulay
To expel or let go.
* H. Spencer
To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
* Shakespeare
(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
# (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 operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
* Knolles
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
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 give forth; to emit or send out.
To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
(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
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)
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
* 1900 , ",
* 1880 , ,
highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
As verbs the difference between discharge and consummate
is that discharge is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation while consummate is to bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.As a noun discharge
is (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.As an adjective consummate is
complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.discharge
English
Verb
(discharg)- O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
- Discharged of business, void of strife.
- In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.
- If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.
- The order for Daly's attendance was discharged .
- Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
- They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
- Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.
- Grindal was discharged the government of his see.
- to discharge a prisoner
- The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.
- 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 discharge a cargo
- A pipe discharges water.
- He discharged a horrible oath.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Noun
(wikipedia discharge)- Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge .
consummate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.