What is discharge?

More definitions of "discharge":

• (verb): Remove the charge from.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (noun): The sudden giving off of energy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word discharge:

““Weren’t you relieved to find he wasn’t dead?”
“No! and yet I don’t know it’s hard to say.
I went about to kill him fair enough.”
“You took an awkward way. Did he discharge you?”
“Discharge me? No! He knew I did just right.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“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)

“It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)