different between exit vs discharge

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ks?t/, /???z?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?t/, /??ks?t/
• Rhymes: -?ks?t
• Hyphenation: ex?it

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exe? (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exe? is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + e? (“to go”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey- (“to go”)). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

exit (plural exits)

1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

   Synonyms: egress, outgoing

   Antonyms: entrance, entry, ingoing, ingress

   1. (specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
2. A way out.
   1. An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.

      Synonyms: outgang, outway

      Antonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, (archaic, rare) entryway, ingang, ingress, portal
   2. (road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
3. (figuratively, often euphemistic) The act of departing from life; death.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

Related terms

• exits (“income, returns, revenue”) (historical)
• issue

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Verb

exit (third-person singular simple present exits, present participle exiting, simple past and past participle exited)

1. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

   Antonyms: arrive, come, enter, ingress

   1. (theater) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.

      Desdemona exits stage left.

2. (intransitive, often euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:die

3. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
4. (transitive, originally US, also figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

   Antonym: enter

   1. (transitive, specifically) To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
5. (bridge, intransitive) To give up the lead.
   • 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete (page 173)

     West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.

Derived terms

• exiter
• exiting (noun)

Related terms

• exeunt

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exe? (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”); see further at etymology 1 above.

Verb

exit

1. (intransitive, drama, also figuratively) Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

   Synonym: exeat

Derived terms

• exit stage left

Related terms

• exeunt

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References

Further reading

• exit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From exe? (“exit, go out”), from ? (“out”) + e? (“go”).

Verb

exit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of exe?

Related terms

• exeunt

Descendants

• ? English: exit (“used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage”)

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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