Discharge vs Smoke - 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) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
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, title= (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
(colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII:
(uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
(uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors .
(uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
(military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
(baseball, slang) A fastball.
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
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, title= To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
To give off smoke.
* Milton
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
(slang) To perform ( music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
(US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
(NZ, slang) To beat someone at something.
(obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer)
(obsolete) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
* Chapman
* (William Shakespeare)
* Addison
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 20
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
* Dryden
To suffer severely; to be punished.
* Shakespeare
Of the colour known as smoke.
Made of or with smoke.
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Discharge is a related term of smoke.
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 a proper noun smoke is
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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 .
smoke
English
(wikipedia smoke)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
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- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke , and went on watching.
Synonyms
* (cigarette) cig, ciggy, cancer stick, fag (qualifier)Derived terms
* Big Smoke * holy smoke * no smoke without fire * secondhand smoke/second-hand smoke * sidestream smoke * smoke alarm * smoke and mirrors * smoke bomb * smokebox * smoke detector * smoke-dried * smoke eater * smoke-filled room * smoke-free zone * smokeho * smokehouse * smokejack * smoke jumper, smokejumper * smokeless * smoke ring * smokescreen/smoke screen/smoke-screen * smoke signal * smokestack * smoke tree * smoke wagon * Smokey the Bear * throwing smokeVerb
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- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes .
- Smoking the temple.
- I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
- He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
- Upon that I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
- The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
- Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
- Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "smoke") * chain-smoke * smoker * smoke out * smokingAdjective
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