Discharge vs Fire - 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)
(uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
(countable) Something that has produced or is capable of producing this chemical reaction, such as a campfire.
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, title= (countable) The often accidental occurrence of fire in a certain place.
(uncountable, alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
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(countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
(countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
(uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
* Atterbury
Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
* (Alexander Pope)
Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
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* (John Milton)
(countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character fire a weapon.
(lb) To set (something) on fire.
* Chapter 20:
*:"Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired' my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." ¶ "You '''fired''' the house!" exclaimed Kemp. ¶ "' Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail—and no doubt it was insured."
*1907 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel)
*:It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.
(lb) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired -in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
(lb) To drive away by setting a fire.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
(lb) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
*1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.226:
*:The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired ’.
(lb) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse of stream of something).
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(lb) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
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To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
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(lb) To forcibly direct (something).
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To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
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To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Love had fired my mind.
To animate; to give life or spirit to.
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To feed or serve the fire of.
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To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
(lb) To cauterize.
To catch fire; to be kindled.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
As nouns the difference between discharge and fire
is that discharge is (symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology while fire is the sector of the economy including finance, insurance and real estate businesses.As a verb discharge
is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.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 .
fire
English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
- He had fire in his temper.
- And bless their critic with a poet's fire .
- Stars, hide your fires .
- As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires .
Derived terms
* all-fire * add fuel to the fire * back fire * balefire * ball of fire * baptism of fire * bonfire * brush-fire * brush fire * bushfire * campfire * catch fire * ceasefire * covering fire * electric fire * fiery * fight fire with fire * fire alarm * fire and brimstone * fire away * firearm * fireball * fire bay * fire beater * fireblast * firebolt * firebomb * firebrand * firebreak * fire brigade * firebug * fireclay * fire company * firecracker * fire department * firedog * fire drill * fire eater * fire engine * fire escape * fire exit * fire extinguisher * fire-fight * firefight * firefighter * fire flapper * firefly * fireguard * fire hose * firehouse * fire hydrant * fire in the belly * firelighter * fireman * fireplace * fireplug * fireproof * fire resistant * fire retardant * fireshine * fire ship * fire station * fireside * fire sign * fire-starter * fire step * firestop * fire swab * fire swatter * fire teaser * fire trench * fire truck * fire up * firewire * firewoman * firewood * firework * forest fire * friendly fire * gas fire * grassfire * grass fire * Greek fire * hang fire * heap coals on fire * hold your fire * hold someone's feet to the fire * irons in the fire * light someone's fire * no smoke without fire * on fire * open fire * ordeal of fire * play with fire * Promethean fire * pull out of the fire * rapid fire * real fire * St Anthony's fire * St Elmo's fire * trial by fireVerb
(fir)Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.}}