Unload vs Disembark - What's the difference?
unload | disembark |
To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
To deposit one's load or cargo.
* 1998 , Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
* 1984 , John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
(computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
* 1993 , Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
To discharge or pour a liquid.
To get rid of or dispose of.
(slang) To go to the bathroom.
To deliver forcefully.
(slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
To draw the charge from.
To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark.
* Shakespeare
To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or airplane; to debark.
As verbs the difference between unload and disembark
is that unload is to remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.) while disembark is to remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark.unload
English
Verb
(en verb)- to unload''' a ship; to '''unload a camel
- to unload bales of hay from a truck
- Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
- ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
- When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
- to unload unprofitable stocks
- to unload feces
- to unload a gun
Derived terms
* unloaderReferences
* English ergative verbsdisembark
English
Verb
(en verb)- The general disembarked the troops.
- Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.
