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Ooze vs Discharge - What's the difference?

ooze | discharge |

As nouns the difference between ooze and discharge

is that ooze is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning while discharge is (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.

As verbs the difference between ooze and discharge

is that ooze is to be secreted or slowly leak while discharge is to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

ooze

English

Etymology 1

* ()'' (etyl) . * ()'' (etyl) ''wosen'', from ''wose 'sap'; see above.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
  • Secretion, humour.
  • A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
  • Verb

  • To be secreted or slowly leak.
  • * 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ISBN 0671654241, unnumbered page:
  • Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
  • * 1994 , Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , Vintage Books (1995), ISBN 9780679740087, unnumbered page:
  • He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
  • * 2011 , Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch , Flux (2011), ISBN 9780738725826, page 278:
  • Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
  • (figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
  • * 1989 , Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour , Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ISBN 9781453231548, unnumbered page:
  • "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
  • * 1999 , Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility , Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ISBN 9780823012077, page 16:
  • There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Newcastle had failed to penetrate a typically organised Stoke backline in the opening stages but, once Cabaye and then Cisse breached their defence, Newcastle oozed confidence and controlled the game with a swagger expected of a top-four team.}}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) wose'', from (etyl) '''' 'mud, mire', from (etyl) . More at virus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
  • * Shakespeare
  • My son i' the ooze is bedded.
  • A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
  • The liquor of a tanning vat.
  • English terms with multiple etymologies

    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)