Discount vs Discard - What's the difference?
discount | discard |
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
* Walsh
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
* Sir William Hamilton
:They discounted his comments.
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
A reduction in price.
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
to throw away, to reject.
* I. Taylor
(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
* Jonathan Swift
As verbs the difference between discount and discard
is that discount is to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of while discard is to throw away, to reject.As nouns the difference between discount and discard
is that discount is a reduction in price while discard is anything discarded.As an adjective discount
is of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.discount
Verb
(en verb)- Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- Discount only unexceptionable paper.
- Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (reduction in price) rebate, reductionAntonyms
* surchargeDerived terms
* quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discountDescendants
* German:Adjective
(-)- This store specializes in discount wares.
- If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
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* English heteronyms ----discard
English
Verb
(en verb)- A man discards the follies of boyhood.
- They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.
