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Egress vs Discharge - What's the difference?

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Egress is a synonym of discharge.


As nouns the difference between egress and discharge

is that egress is an exit or way out while discharge is (symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.

As verbs the difference between egress and discharge

is that egress is to exit or leave; to go or come out while discharge is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

egress

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) + gressus

Noun

(es)
  • An exit or way out.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress .
  • * (1810-1891) (used by him to hurry customers out of his side show)
  • *:Right this way to the Egress !
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • The process of exiting or leaving.
  • *2003 , International Building Code (IBC), Chapter 10 section 1001.1 :
  • *:Buildings or portions thereof shall be provided with a means of egress system as required this chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall control the design, construction and arrangement of means egress components required to provide an approved means of egress from structures and portions thereof.
  • (lb) The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.
    • Synonyms
    * (exit) exit, way out, outgang * (process of exiting) departure, exit, exiting, leaving
    Antonyms
    * (exit) entrance, ingress, way in,regress * (process of exiting) entering, entrance

    Etymology 2

    * From (etyl) egressum, past participle egredi.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To exit or leave; to go or come out.
    • Synonyms
    * (exit) come out, depart, exit, go out, leave
    Antonyms
    * (exit) come in, enter, go in English heteronyms

    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)