different between renounce vs discard

English

Etymology

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Noun

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

Related terms

• renunciation

Verb

renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

   Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate

4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   • 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden

     Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Synonyms

• forsay
• forswear

Derived terms

• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

Related terms

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

Translations

References

• renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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