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discharge
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?/
- (verb) IPA(key): /d?s?t???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)
- 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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- 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.
- January 1, 1878, Herbert Spencer, Ceremonial Government, published in The Fortnightly Review No. 132
- 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 […]
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- Synonyms: fire, let go, terminate; see also Thesaurus:lay off
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- 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.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
Translations
Noun
discharge (countable and uncountable, plural discharges)
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- 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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Synonym: firing
- The process of unloading something.
- The process of flowing out.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (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).
Translations
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debt
English
Alternative forms
- dette (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English dette, dett, borrowed from Old French dete (French dette), from Medieval Latin d?bita, from Latin d?bitum (“what is owed, a debt, a duty”), neuter of d?bitus, perfect passive participle of d?be? (“I owe”), contraction of *dehibe? (“I have from”), from de (“from”) + habe? (“I have”). Doublet of debit.
The unpronounced "b" in the modern English spelling is a Latinisation from the Latin etymon d?bitum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophone: death (with th-stopping)
Noun
debt (countable and uncountable, plural debts)
- An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- The state or condition of owing something to another.
- (finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
- (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- debit
- debitor
- debtor
- indebted
Translations
See also
- owe
Further reading
- debt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
Noun
debt
- Alternative form of dette
debt From the web:
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- what debts are not discharged in bankruptcy
- what debts are forgiven when you die
- what debt to equity ratio is good
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- what debt ratio for mortgage
- what debts are included in dti
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