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Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[noun] a formal written statement of relinquishment
[noun] the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
[noun] the act of venting
[noun] the sudden giving off of energy
[noun] the pouring forth of a fluid
[noun] electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
[noun] any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus"
[noun] a substance that is emitted or released
[verb] eliminate, as of bodily substances
[verb] become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied"
[verb] pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
[verb] release from military service
[verb] cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
[verb] go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
[verb] pour forth or release; esp. of liquids
[verb] remove the charge from
[verb] leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo;
[verb] free from obligations or duties
[verb] complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties"
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\Dis*charge"\, v. i. To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely. The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge. --Bacon.
\Dis*charge"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]charge. See {Discharge}, v. t.] 1. The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo. 2. Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery. 3. Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor. 4. Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty. Indefatigable in the discharge of business. --Motley. Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties. --L'Estrange. 5. Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer. 6. Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner. 7. The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal. Too secure of our discharge From penalty. --Milton. 8. That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge. --Milton. 9. A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe. The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge. --S. Sharp. {Charge and discharge}. (Equity Practice) See under {Charge}, n. {Paralytic discharge} (Physiol.), the increased secretion from a gland resulting from the cutting of all of its nerves.
\Dis*charge"\, v. t. (Textile Dyeing & Printing) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process; as, to discharge the color from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark ground.
\Dis*charge"\, n. (Elec.) The equalization of a difference of electric potential between two points. The character of the discharge is mostly determined by the nature of the medium through which it takes place, the amount of the difference of potential, and the form of the terminal conductors on which the difference exists. The discharge may be alternating, continuous, brush, connective, disruptive, glow, oscillatory, stratified, etc.
Synonyms for discharge
acquit, arc, assoil, clear, complete, dismissal, dismission, dispatch, drop, eject, electric arc, electric discharge, emission, emission, empty, exculpate, exonerate, expel, expelling, fire, firing, firing off, free, liberation, muster out, outpouring, put down, release, release, run, sack, sacking, set down, spark, unload, venting, waiver
Antonyms: charge, convict, draft, enlist, fill, fill up, muster in
See also: air-drop | cannon | cut | demobilise | detonation | distribute | drain | elimination | emission | emit | ending | execute | flashover | flow | hemorrhage | inactivation | liberate | material | menses | pronounce | Saint Ulmo's light | scatter | spew out | sprinkle | take over |
Related terms: accomplish, blast, break, debouch, deliver, deplume, detrusion, disculpation, disembogue, disintegrate, disorganize, enforce, exhalation, extravasate, fulfillment, fulmination, give dispensation from, give notice, give respite, hire purchase, leukorrhea, outflowing, polish off, remit, respect, settlement, shock, spare, transude, unbridling
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Let's analyse "discharge" as pure text. This string has Nine letters in Two syllables and Three vowels. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: EGRAHCSID. Average typing speed for these characters is 2565 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
discharge: 9 + 1 + 5 = 15, reduced: 6 . and the final result is Six. |
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