Word Finder - discharge

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Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.

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The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.

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The act of expelling or letting go.

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The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.

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• firing

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The process of unloading something.

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The process of flowing out.

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The act of releasing an accumulated charge.

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The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.

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The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.

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The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).

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To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

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To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

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To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

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To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

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To expel or let go.

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To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

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To release (an accumulated charge).

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To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

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• fire
• let go
• terminate

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To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

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to discharge a prisoner

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To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

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To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

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To unload a ship or another means of transport.

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To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

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to discharge a cargo

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To give forth; to emit or send out.

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A pipe discharges water.

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To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

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He discharged a horrible oath.

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To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

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to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background

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To prohibit; to forbid.

Feeling better than she had in months, she nagged the doctor to discharge her from the hospital.

The discharge is not infrequently accompanied by a sizzling sound.

Various devices have been suggested for extinguishing the arc and yet allowing the condenser oscillatory discharge to take place.

Several rivers, of which the Komo is the chief, discharge their waters into the estuary.

Local governing authorities now discharge economic functions of enormous importance and complexity, involving sums of money larger than sufficed to run important states a generation ago.

The elongated cylindrical cones grow chiefly at the ends of the upper branches; they are purplish at first, but become afterwards green, and eventually light brown; their scales are slightly toothed at the extremity; they ripen in the autumn, but seldom discharge their seeds until the following spring.

With the rise and fall of the tide the discharge pipes are flushed at the bottom.

The combination of nitrogen with oxygen was first effected by Cavendish in 1785, who employed a spark discharge.

The trestles of this weir are, as usual, hinged to the apron, so that in flood-time they can be completely lowered into a recess across the apron by means of chains actuated by a winch, leaving the channel perfectly open for the discharge of floods and for the passage of vessels when the lock is submerged.

Symptoms include severe abdominal pain, high fever, and vaginal discharge.

His declining days were spent in the discharge of his honourable Florentine office and in the composition of his history.

The discharge of water is by law so regulated that the maximum flow shall not exceed 250,000 cub.

Vessels load and discharge by means of lighters, the outer harbour having a depth at entrance of 24 ft.

Formerly the sparkand absorption-spectra were the sole methods available; a third method was introduced by Crookes, who submitted the oxides, or preferably the basic sulphates, to the action of a negative electric discharge in vacuo, and investigated the phosphorescence induced spectroscopically.

There is a quay here where large vessels can discharge, and agricultural produce is exported.

It was not, however, a commercial success, and the same result attended Siemens and Halske's application of the silent discharge.

The conversion of nitrogen into ammonia by electricity has received much attention, but the commercial aspect appears to have been first worked out by de Hemptinne in 1900, who used both the spark and silent discharge on mixtures of hydrogen and nitrogen, and found that the pressure and temperature must be kept low and the spark gap narrow.

Alexander annulled his grant in 1258, but still pressed Henry for the discharge of unpaid arrears of subsidies.

At Chushul (below the Kyi-chu) the discharge of the river is computed to be about 35,000 cub.

Near Goalpara the discharge of the river in January 1828 was computed to be 140,000 cub.

Thence he was led to his famous researches on the phenomena produced by the discharge of electricity through highly exhausted tubes (sometimes known as "Crookes' tubes" in consequence), and to the development of his theory of "radiant matter" or matter in a "fourth state," which led up to the modern electronic theory.

Under the influence of the transient current, the galvanometer needle undergoes a momentary deflection, or " throw," which is proportional to Q, and therefore to 8B, and thus, if we know the deflection produced by the discharge through the galvanometer of a given quantity of electricity, we have the means of determining the value of 8B.

They contain scarcely any water except in the rainy season, when they are very full and rapid, and discharge themselves into the Runn, all along the coast of which the wells and springs are more or less impregnated with common salt and other saline ingredients.

They are merely craters raised above the level of the surrounding country by the gradual accretion of the soft oily mud, which overflows at frequent intervals whenever a discharge of gas occurs.

The attention of Newton was also directed to the discharge of water from orifices in the bottom of vessels.

P. Hachette (1769-1834) in1816-1817published memoirs containing the results of experiments on the spouting of fluids and the discharge of vessels.

Bornemann re-examined all these results with great care, and gave formulae expressing the variation of the coefficients of discharge in different conditions (Civil Ingenieur, 1880).

For these opinions he was in 1728 suspended from the discharge of ministerial functions, and finally deposed in 1730.

A modification of the system of double-bottom defecators has lately been introduced with considerable success in San Domingo and in Cuba, by which a continuous and steady discharge of clear defecated juice is obtained on the one hand, and on the other a comparatively hard dry cake of scum or cachaza, and without the use of filter presses.

When Cuba was the chief sugar-producing country making clayed sugars it was the custom (followed in refineries and found advantageous in general practice) to discharge the strike of crystallized sugar from the vacuum pan into a receiver heated below by steam, and to stir the mass for a certain time, and then distribute it into the moulds in which it was afterwards clayed.

Earthy matter and other matter precipitated and fallen on the copper double bottom may be dislodged by a slowly revolving scraper - say every twelve hours - and ejected through the bottom discharge cock; and thus the heating surface of the copper bottom will be kept in full efficiency.

Sometimes the cells are erected in a circle, so that the spout below the slicing machine revolving above them with a corresponding radius can discharge the slices into the centre of any of the cells.

By carefully watching the flow from the discharge cock of the cistern the change from the first liquor to the next is easily detected, and the discharge is diverted from the canal for the first liquor to the canal for the second liquor, and, when required, to the canals for the third and fourth liquors.

In former days, when refining sugar or " sugar baking " was supposed to be a mystery only understood by a few of the initiated, there was a place in the refinery called the " secret room," and this name is still used in some refineries, where, however, it applies not to any room, but to a small copper cistern, constructed with five or six or more divisions or small canals, into which all the charcoal cisterns discharge their liquors by pipes led up from them to the top of the cistern.

The broad worm, Dibothriocephalus latus, is similarly estimated to discharge 15 to 20 metres of proglottides, weighing 140 grammes.

The fact of this increased leucocytic activity during the early stages, or the whole course of infection by Cestodes, is indirect proof that these parasites do normally discharge toxic substances into their hosts.

All these salts are mild astringents when applied externally, as they coagulate the albumen of the tissues and of any discharge which may be present.

Of the rivers farther south, which discharge into the Amazon through the Madeira, the Madre de Dios alone offers an extended navigable channel, together with some of its larger tributaries, such as the Heath and Chandless.

The body of the still is provided with one or more openings at different heights to serve for the discharge of the residue in the still, and sometimes with a glass gauge to record the quantity of matter in the still.

Under these governors the great and small councils continued to discharge municipal business and to administer the Paduan law, contained in the statutes of 1276 and 1362.

There are also polite and ordinary forms of expression, often so different as to constitute distinct languages; and there are a number of honorifics which frequently discharge the duty of pronouns.

From that time until his death in 1881 the Aga Khan, while leading the life of a peaceful and peacemaking citizen, under the protection of British rule, continued to discharge his sacerdotal functions, not only among his followers in India, but towards the more numerous communities which acknowledged his religious sway in distant countries, such as Afghanistan, Khorasan, Persia, Arabia, Central Asia, and even distant Syria and Morocco.

The production of ozone in small quantities during electrolysis, and by the so-called silent discharge, has long been known, and the Siemens induction tube has been developed for use industrially.

As president he was punctilious in the discharge of his duties, ready to give help and encouragement to artists young and old, and his tenure of the office was marked by some wise and liberal reforms. He frequently went abroad, generally to Italy, where he was well known and appreciated.

Let the canister be touched with the finger to discharge it perfectly.

A simple method for condenser comparison is to charge the two condensers to the same voltage by a battery and then discharge them successively through a ballistic galvanometer and observe the respective " throws " or deflections of the coil or needle.

But the desire to discharge obligations incurred is no doubt respectable in itself, and Villehardouin, as one of the actual negotiators of the bargain, must have felt it with peculiar strength.

The discharge of the comminuted material takes place through an aperture, which is covered by a thin steel plate perforated with numerous slits about Ath in.

In India itself opinion was more divided, both among the English and among the Indians; but there was a large moderate section among both which welcomed the proposed reforms. In Dec. 1919 he had the satisfaction of passing the Government of India bill, embodying the recommendations of the report, through Parliament, and on its third reading he described it as a step in the discharge of our trusteeship for India; the ultimate justification of our rule would be in the capacity of the Indian peoples to govern themselves.

The early lessons which he had received from his father were continued by his uncle Daniel, and such was his progress that at the age of twenty-one he was called to undertake the duties of the chair of experimental physics, which his uncle's advanced years rendered him unable to discharge.