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Discord vs Discard - What's the difference?

discord | discard |

As nouns the difference between discord and discard

is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while discard is anything discarded.

As verbs the difference between discord and discard

is that discord is to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash while discard is to throw away, to reject.

discord

English

Noun

  • Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
  • * Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
    • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • * Burke
    • Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
  • Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
  • (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
  • Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.

    Related terms

    * discordant * Discordianism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The one discording with the other.

    discard

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to throw away, to reject.
  • * I. Taylor
    • A man discards the follies of boyhood.
  • (card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.

    Synonyms

    * cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything discarded.
  • A discarded playing card in a card game.

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