Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense discharges, present participle discharging, past tense, past participle dischargedpronunciation note: The verb is pronounced (dɪstʃɑːʳdʒ). The noun is pronounced (dɪstʃɑːʳdʒ).
1. verb
When someone is dischargedfrom hospital, prison, or one of the armed services, they are officially allowed to leave, or told that they must leave.
He has a broken nose but may be discharged today. [beVERB-ed]
You are being discharged on medical grounds. [beVERB-ed]
Five days later Henry discharged himself from hospital. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
[Also VERB noun]
Synonyms: release, free, clear, liberate More Synonyms of discharge
Discharge is also a noun.
He was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay compensation.
2. verb
If someone discharges their duties or responsibilities, they do everything that needs to be done in order to complete them.
[formal]
...the quiet competence with which he discharged his many college duties. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: carry out, perform, fulfil, accomplish More Synonyms of discharge
3. verb
If someone discharges a debt, they pay it.
[formal]
The goods will be sold for a fraction of their value in order to discharge the debt. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: pay, meet, clear, settle More Synonyms of discharge
4. verb
If something is discharged from inside a place, it comes out.
[formal]
The resulting salty water will be discharged at sea. [beVERB-ed preposition]
The bird had trouble breathing and was discharging blood from the nostrils. [VERB noun preposition]
Synonyms: pour forth, release, empty, leak More Synonyms of discharge
5. variable noun
When there is a discharge of a substance, the substance comes out from inside somewhere.
[formal]
They develop a fever and a watery discharge from their eyes.
All discharges and disposals of radioactive waste from Springfields were within relevantlimits.
Synonyms: emission, flow, ooze, secretion More Synonyms of discharge
6. verb
If someone discharges a gun, they fire it.
[old-fashioned]
Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: fire, shoot, set off, explode More Synonyms of discharge
More Synonyms of discharge
discharge in British English
verb (dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ)
1. (transitive)
to release or allow to go
the hospital discharged the patient
2. (transitive)
to dismiss from or relieve of duty, office, employment, etc
3.
to fire or be fired, as a gun
4.
to pour forth or cause to pour forth
the boil discharges pus
5. (transitive)
to remove (the cargo) from (a boat, etc); unload
6. (transitive)
to perform (the duties of) or meet (the demands of an office, obligation, etc)
he discharged his responsibilities as mayor
7. (transitive)
to relieve oneself of (a responsibility, debt, etc)
8. (intransitive) physics
a.
to lose or remove electric charge
b.
to form an arc, spark, or corona in a gas
c.
to take or supply electrical current from a cell or battery
9. (transitive) law
to release (a prisoner from custody, etc)
10. (transitive)
to remove dye from (a fabric), as by bleaching
11. (intransitive)
(of a dye or colour) to blur or run
12. (transitive) architecture
a.
to spread (weight) evenly over a supporting member
b.
to relieve a member of (excess weight) by distribution of pressure
noun (ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ, dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ)
13.
a person or thing that is discharged
14.
a.
dismissal or release from an office, job, institution, etc
b.
the document certifying such release
15.
the fulfilment of an obligation or release from a responsibility or liability
honourable discharge
16.
the act of removing a load, as of cargo
17.
a pouring forth of a fluid; emission
18.
a.
the act of firing a projectile
b.
the volley, bullet, missile, etc, fired
19. law
a.
a release, as of a person held under legal restraint
b.
an annulment, as of a court order
20. physics
a.
the act or process of removing or losing charge or of equalizing a potential difference
b.
a transient or continuous conduction of electricity through a gas by the formation and movement of electrons and ions in an applied electric field
21.
a.
the volume of fluid flowing along a pipe or a channel in unit time
b.
the output rate of a plant or piece of machinery, such as a pump
Derived forms
dischargeable (disˈchargeable)
adjective
discharger (disˈcharger)
noun
discharge in American English
(dɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ; also, & for n., usually ˈdɪsˌtʃɑrdʒ)
verb transitiveWord forms: disˈcharged or disˈcharging
1.
to relieve of or release from something that burdens or confines
; specif.,
a.
to remove the cargo of (a ship); unload
b.
to release the charge of (a gun); fire
c.
to release (a soldier, jury, etc.) from duty
d.
to dismiss (a special committee) after it has reported to the legislature of which it is a part
e.
to dismiss from employment
f.
to release (a prisoner) from jail, (a defendant) from suspicion, (a patient) as cured, (a debtor or bankrupt) from obligations, etc.
2.
to release or remove (that by which one is burdened or confined)
; specif.,
a.
to unload (a cargo)
b.
to shoot (a projectile)
c.
to remove (dye) from cloth
3.
to relieve oneself or itself of (a burden, load, etc.)
; specif.,
a.
to throw off; send forth; emit
to discharge pus
b.
to get rid of; acquit oneself of; pay (a debt) or perform (a duty)
4. Architecture
a.
to relieve (a wall, etc.) of excess pressure by distribution of weight
b.
to distribute (weight) evenly over a supporting part
5. US, Electricity
to remove stored energy from (a battery or capacitor)
verb intransitive
6.
to get rid of a burden, load, etc.
7.
to be released or thrown off
8.
to fire; go off: said of a gun, etc.
9.
to emit waste matter
said of a wound, etc.
10.
to run: said of a dye
11.
to lose or give off a stored electrical charge
noun
12.
a discharging or being discharged
13.
that which discharges, as a legal order for release, a certificate of dismissal from military service, etc.
14.
that which is discharged, as pus from a sore
15.
a flow of electric current across a gap, as in a spark or arc
SIMILAR WORDS: free
Derived forms
dischargeable (disˈchargeable)
adjective
discharger (disˈcharger)
noun
Word origin
ME dischargen < OFr descharger < VL *discarricare, to unload < L dis-, from + carrus, wagon, car1
discharge in Chemical Engineering
(dɪstʃɑrdʒ)
Word forms: (regular plural) discharges
noun (count) (noncount)
(Chemical Engineering: General)
Discharge is the flow of waste or product from a process.
The control of air pollution resulting from the discharge of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere has become increasingly urgent.
Other openings were provided at the top of the shell to allow discharge of the products of combustion into the air of the room.
Discharge is the flow of waste or product from a process.
discharge head, discharge rate
discharge in the Oil and Gas Industry
(dɪstʃɑrdʒ)
Word forms: (present) discharges, (past) discharged, (perfect) discharged, (progressive) discharging
verb
(Extractive engineering: Field development, Drilling)
When a pump discharges a substance, it pushes it out.
Oil is discharged from the pump into the casing and out the wellhead.
The volume of the fluid discharged from the pump is equal to the area of the plunger or piston.
When a pump discharges a substance, it pushes it out.
Electrical discharge can occur by the release of the electric charge stored in a capacitor through anexternal circuit.
The discharge path was formed when a conductive liquid seeped into the plug-socket assembly.
Capacitors may also have built-in discharge resistors to dissipate stored energy to a safe level within a few seconds after poweris removed.
Electrical discharge can occur by the release of the electric charge stored in a capacitor through anexternal circuit.
air discharge, corona discharge, discharge tube
Examples of 'discharge' in a sentence
discharge
She had surgery and was discharged from hospital yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
One officer has been discharged from hospital.
The Sun (2016)
It is understood that he was taken to hospital and discharged after having stitches.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He discharged himself from hospital and left the country without telling anyone.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He was given a conditional discharge.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He got a conditional discharge yesterday.
The Sun (2016)
She was given a 12-month conditional discharge after she vowed to pay the money back.
The Sun (2016)
A further 35 per cent are discharged after being given advice or guidance only.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Failure to discharge patients, often because of a lack of social care, means an increasing number of elderly people are remaining in hospital unnecessarily.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This makes it easier to discharge patients into social care.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She was fined and given a conditional discharge.
The Sun (2015)
The men were taken to hospital but discharged.
The Sun (2016)
She was looking down at it and discharged the gun.
The Sun (2015)
The vast majority of teachers understand this obligation and discharge it well.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is the discharge and its cause that will be the focus of his attention.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The most likely explanation is premature discharge of patients by hospital trusts under pressure of targets.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Many stay too long in hospital or are discharged in worse health than when they arrived.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In what respect has he failed to discharge these obligations?
Christianity Today (2000)
Staff have been told they must tell the police an hour before a patient is discharged.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The footage shows a man being pinned to the ground by three policemen while a fourth discharges the stun gun.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
If the repayment plan is successfully completed, the debts are discharged.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
Some of last week's rioters were dismissed with a warning or a conditional discharge.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His debts to be discharged, and something still to remain!
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813)
She was given a two-year conditional discharge.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A previous demonstration ended with police discharging tear gas into the crowd.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I subsequently discharged my debt to her.
Lesley Adkins EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon (2003)
If he discharges waste into the pipes and they flood your land, you could sue him for causing a nuisance.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He got an 18-month conditional discharge and must pay 85 costs.
The Sun (2014)
In other languages
discharge
British English: discharge VERB
When someone is discharged from hospital, prison, or one of the armed services, they are officially allowed to leave, or told that they must leave.
He has a broken nose but may be discharged today.
American English: discharge
Brazilian Portuguese: dispensar
Chinese: 批准离开
European Spanish: salir
French: autoriser à quitter
German: entlassen
Italian: dimettereda ospedale
Japanese: 解放される
Korean: 내보내다
European Portuguese: dispensar
Latin American Spanish: salir
All related terms of 'discharge'
air discharge
Air discharge is a method for testing ESD-protection structures in which the ESD generator is discharged through an air gap between the generator and the device under test.
brush discharge
a slightly luminous electrical discharge between points of high charge density when the charge density is insufficient to cause a spark or around sharp points on a highly charged conductor because of ionization of air molecules in their vicinity
discharge head
The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump , measured as a height .
discharge rate
The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
discharge tube
an electrical device in which current flow is by electrons and ions in an ionized gas , as in a fluorescent light or neon tube
glow discharge
a silent luminous discharge of electricity through a low-pressure gas
corona discharge
an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor , caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
electric discharge
to release or allow to go
orifice discharge
Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe .
static discharge
Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
vaginal discharge
discharge from the vagina , from various causes, such as sexual excitement , or STDs
conditional discharge
If someone who is convicted of an offence is given a conditional discharge by a court , they are not punished unless they later commit a further offence.
disruptive discharge
a sudden large increase in current through an insulating medium resulting from failure of the medium to withstand an applied electric field
gas-discharge tube
any tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
honourable discharge
to release or allow to go
dishonourable discharge
dismissal from the US armed forces by a court martial as a result of serious misconduct
unconditional discharge
the release of a defendant without having to spend time on parole or probation
electric-discharge lamp
a type of lamp in which an electrical gas discharge is maintained in a tube with a thin layer of phosphor on its inside surface. The gas, which is often mercury vapour , emits ultraviolet radiation causing the phosphor to fluoresce