What is discharge?

More definitions of "discharge":

• (verb): Go off or discharge.
  Synonyms: fire, go off

• (noun): The pouring forth of a fluid.
  Synonyms: outpouring, run

• (verb): Release from military service.
  Synonyms: muster out

• (verb): Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.
  Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exonerate, exculpate

• (verb): Eliminate (substances) from the body.
  Synonyms: expel, eject, release

• (verb): Remove the charge from.

• (noun): The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart).
  Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking

• (noun): The act of venting.
  Synonyms: venting

• (verb): Leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo.
  Synonyms: drop, set down, put down, unload

• (verb): Become empty or void of its content.
  Synonyms: empty

• (verb): Cause to go off.
  Synonyms: fire

• (verb): Complete or carry out.
  Example: "Discharge one's duties"
  Synonyms: dispatch, complete

• (noun): The act of discharging a gun.
  Synonyms: firing, firing off

• (noun): A formal written statement of relinquishment.
  Synonyms: release, waiver

• (verb): Free from obligations or duties.
  Synonyms: free

• (verb): Pour forth or release.
  Example: "Discharge liquids"

• (noun): Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.
  Example: "The discharge of pus"
  Synonyms: emission, expelling

• (noun): A substance that is emitted or released.
  Synonyms: emission

• (noun): Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
  Synonyms: spark, arc, electric arc, electric discharge

Famous quotes containing the word discharge:

“Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
More needs she the divine than the physician.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains commerce. And we pay not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we might the more easily find lenders on another occasion.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as independent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)