different between discard vs decollator

English

Etymology

From dis- +? card. Compare Spanish descartar.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Verb

discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)

1. (transitive) to throw away, to reject.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     A man discards the follies of boyhood.
2. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

Synonyms

• (throw away): cast away, dismiss, dispose, eliminate, get rid of, throw away; See also Thesaurus:junk
• (dismiss from employment): fire, let go, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off

Translations

Noun

discard (plural discards)

1. Anything discarded.
2. A discarded playing card in a card game.
3. (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
   • 2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core (page 120)

     Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

Translations

Further reading

• discard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• discard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ID cards

English

Etymology

decollate +? -or

Noun

decollator (plural decollators)

1. (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper

Anagrams

• corollated

Latin

Verb

d?coll?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of d?coll?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of d?coll?