Discharge vs Load - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between discharge and load

is that discharge is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation while load is to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

As nouns the difference between discharge and load

is that discharge is (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology while load is a burden; a weight to be carried.

discharge

English

Verb

(discharg)

To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 1

O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.

To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.

* Dryden

Discharged of business, void of strife.

* L'Estrange

In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

* Shakespeare

If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

* Macaulay

The order for Daly's attendance was discharged .

To expel or let go.

* H. Spencer

Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

* Shakespeare

They do discharge their shot of courtesy.

(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

* Shakespeare

Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.

* Milton

Grindal was discharged the government of his see.

# (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 discharge a prisoner

To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

* Knolles

The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

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 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 discharge a cargo

To give forth; to emit or send out.

A pipe discharges water.

To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

He discharged a horrible oath.

(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Noun

(wikipedia discharge)
(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

Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge .

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)

load
English

Noun
(en noun)
A burden; a weight to be carried.

I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind .

* Dryden

Our life's a load .

* 2005 , (Coldplay), Green Eyes

I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.

A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.

She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.

(in combination)

(often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.

I got loads of presents for my birthday!

I got a load of emails about that.

The volume of work required to be performed.

Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?

(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.

(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.

(engineering) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.

(obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.

* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 172:

If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.

A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

The charge of powder for a firearm.

(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.

(Milton)

(vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.

* 2006 , John Patrick, Barely Legal , page 102

Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out

* 2009 , John Butler Wanderlust , page 35

It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.

Synonyms
* charge, freight
Derived terms
* see
Verb

To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

The dock workers refused to load the ship.

To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.

He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.

To put a load on something.

The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .

To receive a load.

''The truck is designed to load easily.

To be placed into storage or conveyance.

The containers load quickly and easily .

To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.

To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.

To be put into use in an apparatus.

The cartridge was designed to load easily.

(computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

Click OK to load the selected data.

(computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

This program takes an age to load .

(baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases

He walks to load the bases.

To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.

The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.

To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

To encumber with something negative.

The new owners had loaded the company with debt.

To place as an encumbrance.

The new owners loaded debt on the company.

To provide in abundance.

He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.

He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.

(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.

to load wine

(archaic) To magnetize.

(Prior)

Derived terms
* See
Derived terms
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