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Pollution vs Discharger - What's the difference?

pollution | discharger |

As nouns the difference between pollution and discharger

is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while discharger is someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.

pollution

English

(wikipedia pollution)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=, title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
  • Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  • (archaic) Physical defilement.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
  • * 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
    • The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

    Synonyms

    * soilage * (masturbation) self-pollution

    Antonyms

    * conservation * purity

    Derived terms

    * air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollution

    Related terms

    * polluter

    discharger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Harold Henderson, City File, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage="Over 90% of the dischargers examined were in violation of permit limits. }}