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Exclude vs Discard - What's the difference?

exclude | discard |

As verbs the difference between exclude and discard

is that exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out while discard is to throw away, to reject.

As a noun discard is

anything discarded.

exclude

English

Verb

(exclud)
  • To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
  • To expel; to put out.
    • to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
  • (legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
  • (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

    • Antonyms

    * include

    Related terms

    * exclusion * exclusive

    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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