Discharge vs Void - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between discharge and void

is that discharge is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation while void is to make invalid or worthless.

As nouns the difference between discharge and void

is that discharge is (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology while void is an empty space; a vacuum.

As an adjective void is

containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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)

void
English
(wikipedia void)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) vuit'', ''voide (modern vide).
Adjective
(-)
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

* Bible, Genesis i. 2

The earth was without form, and void .

* Shakespeare

I'll get me to a place more void .

* Massinger

I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.

Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

* Camden

divers great offices that had been long void

Being without; destitute; devoid.

* Bible, Proverbs xi. 12

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.

Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

* Bible, Isa. lv. 11

[My word] shall not return to me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please.

* Bible, Jer. xix. 7

I will make void the counsel of Judah.

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

null and void

Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

* Alexander Pope

idol, void and vain

(computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.

* 2005 , Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns

In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.

* 2007 , Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development

The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.

Noun
(en noun)
An empty space; a vacuum.

Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.

* Alexander Pope

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.

(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies

(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

Synonyms
* pore * bubble
Verb
(en verb)
(label) To make invalid or worthless.

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* (1609-1674)

*:It was become a practiceto void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.

*(w) (1643-1715)

*:after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken

To empty.

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To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

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*:You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur

*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)

*:With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.

*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)

*:a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices

To withdraw, depart.

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*:BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye

To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

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*:If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.

Synonyms
* (make invalid or worthless) annul, cancel * evacuate
Etymology 2
Alteration of (voidee).
Noun
(en noun)

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 68:

Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void ’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.

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