different between discharge vs echo

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).

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• echoe (obsolete)
• eccho (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?), from ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k??
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??ko?/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
3. (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
4. (figuratively) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, Will o' the Mill

     Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

5. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
6. Echo, the letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
7. (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
8. (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
9. (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
10. (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

1. (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
2. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).

   • Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

   • 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year, Christmas Day

     The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.

3. (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).

4. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
5. (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Translations

Anagrams

• Choe, HCEO, oche

Asturian

Verb

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xo/

Noun

echo n

1. echo (reflected sound)

Synonyms

• ozv?na

Further reading

• echo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• echo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.xo?/
• Hyphenation: echo

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch echo, from Latin ?ch?, from Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?), from ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Noun

echo m (plural echo's, diminutive echootje n)

1. echo

   Synonym: weergalm

Derived terms

• echoën

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echoën
2. imperative of echoën

Ladino

Noun

echo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????)

1. work

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?.k?o?/, [?e?k?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.ko/, [???k?]

Noun

?ch? f (genitive ?ch?s); fourth declension

1. echo

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (nominative/vocative singular in -?).

Other forms:

• Accusative singular ?ch? and ?ch?n; only these forms and the nominative singular are attested in ancient Latin, not the other forms mentioned above.

References

• echo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• echo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• echo in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• echo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.x?/

Noun

echo n

1. echo

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

echo m (plural echos)

1. Obsolete spelling of eco (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??o/, [?e.t??o]
• Homophone: hecho
• Rhymes: -et?o

Verb

echo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of echar.