Dispense vs Discharge - What's the difference?
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To issue, distribute, or put out.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
* Dryden
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .
(obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
* , II.34:
* Macaulay
* Johnson
(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
* Spenser
* Gower
(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
* , II.xii:
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)
As verbs the difference between dispense and discharge
is that dispense is while 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.dispense
English
Verb
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- to dispense justice
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
- After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.
- It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .
- His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.
Derived terms
* dispensary * dispenserNoun
(en noun)- what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].
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English
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 .
