different between clatter vs discharge

English

Etymology

From Middle English clatren (“to make a rattling sound”), from Old English *clatrian (attested as the Late Old English gerund clatrung), of onomatopoeic origin.

The noun, derived from the verb, is first attested in the 14^th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klæt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: clat?ter

Verb

clatter (third-person singular simple present clatters, present participle clattering, simple past and past participle clattered)

1. (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,

     And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;

     He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there

     But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,

     Bess, the landlord's daughter,

     Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

2. (transitive) To cause to make a rattling noise.
   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy

     You clatter still your brazen kettle.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Chapter V:

     When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...

3. (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     But if that I knewe what his name hight,
     For clatering of me I would him ?one quight;
     For his fal?e lying, of that I ?pake never,
     I could make him ?hortly repent him forever: […]

   • I see thou dost but clatter.

4. (Northern England) To hit; to smack.
   • 1988, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live:

     "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”

   • 2010, Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till:

     “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

Derived terms

• clatterer
• clattering
• clatteringly

Translations

Noun

clatter (plural clatters)

1. A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.
2. A loud disturbance.
3. Noisy talk or chatter.

Synonyms

• commotion
• racket

Derived terms

• clattery

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clatter”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• clatter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English dischargen, from Anglo-Norman descharger and Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarric? (“I unload”), equivalent to dis- +? charge.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (verb) IPA^(key): /d?s?t???d?/
  • (noun) IPA^(key): /?d?st???d?/
• (US)
  • (verb) enPR: d?schärj', IPA^(key): /d?s?t???d?/
  • (noun) enPR: d?s'chärj, IPA^(key): /?d?st???d?/

Verb

discharge (third-person singular simple present discharges, present participle discharging, simple past and past participle discharged)

1. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1

     O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.

2. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
3. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
4. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
5. To expel or let go.
   • January 1, 1878, Herbert Spencer, Ceremonial Government, published in The Fortnightly Review No. 132

     Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

6. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
   • Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]

7. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
8. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

   Synonyms: fire, let go, terminate; see also Thesaurus:lay off

   1. (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
   2. (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
9. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

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

    • discharge his pieces

    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

      I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.

11. (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
12. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
13. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

14. To give forth; to emit or send out.

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

16. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

17. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

Translations

Noun

discharge (countable and uncountable, plural discharges)

1. (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
2. The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1

     Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.

3. The act of expelling or letting go.
4. The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.

   Synonym: firing

5. The process of unloading something.
6. The process of flowing out.
7. (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
8. (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
9. (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
10. (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).

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