Discharge vs Snap - What's the difference?

Discharge is a related term of snap.

As nouns the difference between discharge and snap

is that discharge is (symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology while snap is (computing) (subnetwork access protocol).

As a verb discharge

is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

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)

snap
English
(wikipedia snap)
Noun

A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.

A sudden break.

An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.

The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm.

A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.

A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot)

The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.

A thin circular cookie or similar good:

a ginger snap

A brief, sudden period of a certain weather;

A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.

It'll be a snap to get that finished.

I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap .

A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris .

(American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.

A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.

(UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.

* 1913 , , Penguin 2006, page 89:

When I went to put my coat on at snap time, what should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse.

(uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards.

(obsolete) A greedy fellow.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.

* Ben Jonson

He's a nimble fellow, / And alike skilled in every liberal science, / As having certain snaps of all.

briskness; vigour; energy; decision

(slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

A snapper, or snap beetle.
(Webster 1913)
Derived terms
* snappy
See also
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Verb

(transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.

He snapped his stick in anger.

If you bend it too much, it will snap .

* Burke

But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.

To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.

Blazing firewood snaps .

To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.

A dog snaps''' at a passenger. A fish '''snaps at the bait.

To attempt to seize with eagerness.

She snapped at the chance to appear on television.

To speak abruptly or sharply.

He snapped at me for the slightest mistake.

To give way abruptly and loudly.

To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.

She should take a break before she snaps .

To flash or appear to flash as with light.

To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.

(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.

The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.

To snatch with or as if with the teeth.

* South

He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.

To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.

To say abruptly or sharply.

(dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up .

(Granville)

To cause something to emit a snapping sound.

to snap a fastener

to snap a whip

To close something using a snap as a fastener.

To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.

* Sir Walter Scott

MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly.

To cause to move suddenly and smartly.

To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).

He snapped a picture of me with my mouth open and my eyes closed.

(American football) To pass the ball from the center to a back; to hike the ball.

He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.

To misfire.

The gun snapped .

Derived terms
* snap at someone's heels * snap it up * snap one's fingers * snap someone's head off * snap up * unsnap
Interjection
(en-interj)!
The winning cry at a game of .

(British) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar

Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.

(British) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).

(US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.

"I just ran over your phone with my car." "Oh, snap !"

(British, Australia, NZ) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.

"Wasn't that John?" "Wasn't that John?" "Snap !"

Synonyms
* (used after simultaneous utterance) jinx
Anagrams
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