Meaning of 'discharge' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of
a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
- To free of the missile with which anything is charged
or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult,
etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also,
to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
- To of something weighing upon or impeding over one,
as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to
absolve; to acquit; to clear.
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away
from service; to dismiss.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at
liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to
take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to
discharge a cargo.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to
relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty,
trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or
part.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to
pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe
discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to
discharge a horrible oath.
- To prohibit; to forbid.
- 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.
- Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion;
letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
- 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.
- 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.
- Release or dismissal from an office, employment,
etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
- Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the
discharge of a prisoner.
- The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt,
obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
- That which discharges or releases from an obligation,
liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
- A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation;
also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of
water from the pipe.
Meaning of 'discharge' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
Meaning (2):
- eliminate (a substance)
Example in sentence:- combustion products are exhausted in the engine;
- the plant releases a gas
Meaning (3):
- pour forth or release
Meaning (4):
- complete or carry out
Meaning (5):
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
Example in sentence:- drop off the passengers at the hotel;
- unload the cargo
Meaning (6):
- cause to go off
Meaning (7):
- go off or discharge
Meaning (8):
- become empty or void of its content
Meaning (9):
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
Example in sentence:- The suspect was cleared of the murder charges
Definition
[ v. i.]