different between discard vs disable

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

dis- +? able

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [d?s?e?b??]
• Rhymes: -e?b?l

Verb

disable (third-person singular simple present disables, present participle disabling, simple past and past participle disabled)

1. (transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.
2. (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.

   Falling off the horse disabled him.

3. (chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

   The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.

Synonyms

• unable (non-standard), see also Thesaurus:disable
• deactivate

Antonyms

• enable

Derived terms

• disablement

Translations

Adjective

disable (comparative more disable, superlative most disable)

1. (obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.

   • Our disable and unactive force.

Anagrams

• baldies, bidales, diables, labside

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?sebl/, /?d??ebl/

Verb

disable (third-person singular present disables, present participle disablein, past disablet, past participle disablet)

1. disable, disqualify