discharge meaning
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[dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ] [ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ] [dɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ] [ˈdɪstʃɑrdʒ] 
US WDischarge
- Discharge in the context to expel or to "let go" may refer to:
- Military discharge, when a member of the armed forces is released from service
- Termination of employment, the end of an employee's duration with an employer
- Patient discharge, the formal ending of inpatient care
- Discharge (sentence), a criminal sentence where no punishment is imposed
- The act of firing a gun
- Port of discharge or delivery (POD)
- Discharge in the context of a flow may refer to:
- Electric discharge:
- Discharger, an electrical device that releases stored energy
- NounPLdischargesPREdis-
- (medicine, 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.
- 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).
- (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- VerbSGdischargesPRdischargingPT, PPdischarged
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- 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).
- 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.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
- (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Model simulations were conducted in the Gwynns Falls Watershed (171 km 2 ), Maryland, USA, a subwatershed that discharges to the Chesapeake Bay. The three streams included in the Pennino et al.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of discharge in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en discharged
- en dischargee
- en discharger
- en discharges
- en dischargest
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "discharge" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.