Discharge vs Predischarge - What's the difference?
discharge | predischarge |
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)
As a verb discharge
is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.As a noun discharge
is (symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.As an adjective predischarge is
before a discharge.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 .