discharge

verb (used with object), dis·charged, dis·charg·ing.

1. to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
2. to remove or send forth: They discharged the cargo at New York.
3. to fire or shoot (a firearm or missile): to discharge a gun.
4. to pour forth; emit: to discharge oil; to discharge a stream of invective.
5. to relieve oneself of (an obligation, burden, etc.).
6. to relieve of obligation, responsibility, etc.
7. to fulfill, perform, or execute (a duty, function, etc.).
8. to relieve or deprive of office, employment, etc.; dismiss from service.
9. to release, send away, or allow to go (often followed by from): The children were discharged early from school. They discharged him from prison.
10. to pay (a debt).
11. Law.
    1. to release (a defendant, especially one under confinement).
    2. to release (a bankrupt) from former debts.
    3. to cancel (a contract).
    4. to release (bail).
12. (in a legislative body) to order (a committee) to cease further consideration of a bill so that it can be voted on.
13. Electricity. to rid (a battery, capacitor, etc.) of a charge of electricity.
14. Dyeing. to free from a dye, as by chemical bleaching.

verb (used without object), dis·charged, dis·charg·ing.

15. to get rid of a burden or load.
16. to deliver a charge or load.
17. to pour forth.
18. to go off or fire, as a firearm or missile.
19. to blur or run, as a color or dye.
20. Electricity. to lose or give up a charge of electricity.

noun

21. the act of discharging a ship, load, etc.
22. the act of firing a weapon, as an arrow by drawing and releasing the string of the bow, or a gun by exploding the charge of powder.
23. a sending or coming forth, as of water from a pipe; ejection; emission.
24. the rate or amount of such issue.
25. something sent forth or emitted.
26. a relieving, ridding, or getting rid of something of the nature of a charge.
27. Law.
    1. an acquittal or exoneration.
    2. an annulment, as of a court order.
    3. the freeing of one held under legal process.
28. a relieving or being relieved of obligation or liability; fulfillment of an obligation.
29. the payment of a debt.
30. a release or dismissal, as from prison, an office, or employment.
31. a certificate of such a release or a certificate of release from obligation or liability.
32. the act or process of ordering a legislative committee to cease further consideration of a bill so that it can be voted on.
33. Military.
    1. the separation of a person from military service.
    2. a certificate of such separation.
34. Electricity.
    1. the removal or transference of an electric charge, as by the conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy.
    2. the equalization of a difference of potential, as between two terminals.

verb (dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ)

1. (tr) to release or allow to gothe hospital discharged the patient
2. (tr) to dismiss from or relieve of duty, office, employment, etc
3. to fire or be fired, as a gun
4. to pour forth or cause to pour forththe boil discharges pus
5. (tr) to remove (the cargo) from (a boat, etc); unload
6. (tr) to perform (the duties of) or meet (the demands of an office, obligation, etc)he discharged his responsibilities as mayor
7. (tr) to relieve oneself of (a responsibility, debt, etc)
8. (intr) physics
   1. to lose or remove electric charge
   2. to form an arc, spark, or corona in a gas
   3. to take or supply electrical current from a cell or battery
9. (tr) law to release (a prisoner from custody, etc)
10. (tr) to remove dye from (a fabric), as by bleaching
11. (intr) (of a dye or colour) to blur or run
12. (tr) architect
    1. to spread (weight) evenly over a supporting member
    2. to relieve a member of (excess weight) by distribution of pressure

noun (ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ, dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ)

13. a person or thing that is discharged
14. 1. dismissal or release from an office, job, institution, etc
    2. the document certifying such release
15. the fulfilment of an obligation or release from a responsibility or liabilityhonourable discharge
16. the act of removing a load, as of cargo
17. a pouring forth of a fluid; emission
18. 1. the act of firing a projectile
    2. the volley, bullet, missile, etc, fired
19. law
    1. a release, as of a person held under legal restraint
    2. an annulment, as of a court order
20. physics
    1. the act or process of removing or losing charge or of equalizing a potential difference
    2. a transient or continuous conduction of electricity through a gas by the formation and movement of electrons and ions in an applied electric field
21. 1. the volume of fluid flowing along a pipe or a channel in unit time
    2. the output rate of a plant or piece of machinery, such as a pump

v.

early 14c., “to exempt, exonerate, release,” from Old French deschargier (12c., Modern French décharger) “to unload, discharge,” from Late Latin discarricare, from dis- “do the opposite of” (see dis-) + carricare “load” (see charge (v.)).

Meaning “to unload, to free from” is late 14c. Of weapons, from 1550s. The electrical sense is first attested 1748. Meaning “to fulfill, to perform one’s duties” is from c.1400. Related: Discharged; discharging.

n.

late 14c., “relief from misfortune,” see discharge (v.). Meaning “release from work or duty” is from early 15c.

v.

1. To emit a substance, as by excretion or secretion.
2. To release a patient from custody or care.
3. To generate an electrical impulse. Used of a neuron.

n.

1. The act of releasing, emitting, or secreting.
2. A substance that is excreted or secreted.
3. The generation of an electrical impulse by a neuron.

Noun

1. The conversion of chemical energy to electric energy within a storage battery.
2. A flow of electricity in a dielectric, especially in a rarefied gas.
3. A flowing out or pouring forth, as of a bodily fluid; emission or secretion.
4. A substance or material that is released, emitted, or excreted, especially from the body.

Verb

1. To undergo or cause the release of stored energy or electric charge, as from a battery or capacitor.
2. To release, emit, or excrete a substance, especially from the body.