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单词 discard
释义
discard1 verbdiscard2 noun
discarddis‧card1 /dɪsˈkɑːd $ -ɑːrd/ ●○○ verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINdiscard1
Origin:
1700-1800 dis- + CARD1 (5)
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
discard
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theydiscard
he, she, itdiscards
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theydiscarded
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave discarded
he, she, ithas discarded
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad discarded
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill discard
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have discarded
Continuous Form
PresentIam discarding
he, she, itis discarding
you, we, theyare discarding
PastI, he, she, itwas discarding
you, we, theywere discarding
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been discarding
he, she, ithas been discarding
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been discarding
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be discarding
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been discarding
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A child had become trapped in a refrigerator discarded in a vacant lot.
  • Cut the olives into small slices and discard the pits.
  • People who discard their litter in the streets should have to pay heavy fines.
  • Wait! You forgot to discard.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A first step for this current administration would be to discard its ideologically-inspired opposition to council housing building.
  • I just traded up, discarding my old Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive for new Colorado Jumbo 1400.
  • In many cases, expensive equipment is being discarded.
  • Interference pattern Today's cellphone networks treat the interference information as unwanted noise and discard it.
  • Meanwhile, librarian Jane Lane has recently had to discard around 100 social science books because they were woefully out of date.
  • The parasitism of advertising enables it to use and discard any style and content for its own ends.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto throw something away
also chuck away informal British informal: throw/chuck something away · I've thrown his photograph away and I never want to see his face again.· It's a nice dress. It would be a shame to chuck it away.· To avoid the risk of infection, needles must be used once and then thrown away immediately.throw/chuck away something · Some employers throw away all incorrectly hand-written applications without even reading them.· In the bin there were a few scraps of food his mum had chucked away.
also chuck out especially British, informal, /toss out American informal to get rid of something, especially when you are trying to make a place more tidy or to make space for new things: throw/chuck/toss something out: · You haven't thrown those magazines out have you?· We chucked a lot of stuff out when we moved house.throw/chuck/toss out something: · She would do nothing for days then spring into action and spend a day throwing out all the garbage, cleaning the bathroom, and dusting.· Why don't you toss out all those old books. You'll never want to read them again.
to throw something away, especially something old or dirty: · I think it's time we got rid of all these old toys.· If you hate that furniture so much why don't you get rid of it and buy some new stuff.get rid of something for somebody: · Give me the empty bottles -- I'll get rid of them for you.
American informal to get rid of something, especially when you are trying to make a place more tidy or to make room for new things: · If you don't want any of these shoes, I'm going to toss them.· "What should I do with all your old text books?" "Just chuck them out - I'm never going to need them."
formal to throw away something that you do not want or no longer need, by putting it in a suitable place: · Please dispose of this wrapper carefully.· Nuclear waste can cause serious damage to the environment if not disposed of properly.
formal to throw away something that you no longer need, especially by dropping it on the ground or leaving it somewhere you should not: · People who discard their litter in the streets should have to pay heavy fines.· A child had become trapped in a refrigerator discarded in a vacant lot.
to throw away something dangerous or something no one wants, especially by leaving it in an unsuitable place: dump something in/into something: · People who want to get rid of old cars sometimes dump them in the woods.· Toxic waste is being dumped into the ocean.· The half-burned bodies were dumped in mass graves.
WORD SETS
ace, nounbaccarat, nounbid, nounblackjack, nounbridge, nouncanasta, nouncard, nouncard table, nouncontract bridge, nouncourt card, nouncrib, nouncribbage, nouncut, verbdeal, noundeal, verbdealer, noundeck, noundiscard, verbdiscard, noundummy, nounface card, nounflush, nounfull house, noungin rummy, noungrand slam, nounhand, nounjack, nounjoker, nounking, nounkitty, nounknave, nounlead, verboverbid, verbpack, nounpatience, nounpicture card, nounplaying card, nounpoker, nounpontoon, nounqueen, nounraise, verbrubber, nounrummy, nounrun, nounshuffle, verbshuffle, nounsnap, nounsnap, interjectionsolitaire, nounspade, nounstrip poker, nounsuit, nountrick, nountrump, nountrump, verbtwenty-one, nounwhist, nounwild, adjectivewild card, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· One plan after another was proposed, then discarded.· It uses us and then discards us.· The contents were then discarded, the wells were washed with the wash buffer solution and blotted on a paper towel.· During the past weeks he had become tired of putting two and two together, and then discarding the answer.
1[transitive] to get rid of something SYN  throw away:  Discard any old cleaning materials. discarded paper2[intransitive, transitive] to put down unwanted cards in a card game
discard1 verbdiscard2 noun
discarddis‧card2 /ˈdɪskɑːd $ -ɑːrd/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • People pay him to haul away their discards.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Cap Sogea had such dominance in the class that her one discard was a 1st place.
  • Her sensible cotton nightshirt must have been one of his discards.
  • Marble discards are crushed to make the gravel or composite paving stones you see all over the world.
  • What is one institution's discard is another's desideratum.
word sets
WORD SETS
ace, nounbaccarat, nounbid, nounblackjack, nounbridge, nouncanasta, nouncard, nouncard table, nouncontract bridge, nouncourt card, nouncrib, nouncribbage, nouncut, verbdeal, noundeal, verbdealer, noundeck, noundiscard, verbdiscard, noundummy, nounface card, nounflush, nounfull house, noungin rummy, noungrand slam, nounhand, nounjack, nounjoker, nounking, nounkitty, nounknave, nounlead, verboverbid, verbpack, nounpatience, nounpicture card, nounplaying card, nounpoker, nounpontoon, nounqueen, nounraise, verbrubber, nounrummy, nounrun, nounshuffle, verbshuffle, nounsnap, nounsnap, interjectionsolitaire, nounspade, nounstrip poker, nounsuit, nountrick, nountrump, nountrump, verbtwenty-one, nounwhist, nounwild, adjectivewild card, noun
an unwanted card that is put down in a card game
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