discharge

verb · nounB2

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Động từ

verb
V_es/s
discharges
V_ing/Gerund
discharging
V_ed/pp
discharged
  1. 1.

    To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

    Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. (1965, Amendment XXV)

  2. 2.

    To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

  3. 3.

    To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

  4. 4.

    To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

  5. 5.

    To expel or let go.

    Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

  6. 6.

    To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

  7. 7.

    (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).

  8. 8.

    To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

    Đồng nghĩa: fire, let go, terminate, axe, can, decruit, dehire, discard, remove, discharge, dismiss, downsize, fire, give the axe, give someone the boot, give someone their cards, give the chop, give the elbow, give someone the heave-ho, give someone the old heave-ho, lay off, let go, let someone go, make redundant, pink slip, promote to customer, retrench, sack, serve notice, shit-can, term, terminate, throw out, unhire

  9. 9.

    To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

    to discharge a prisoner

  10. 10.

    To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

  11. 11.

    (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

  12. 12.

    To unload a ship or another means of transport.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
discharges
  1. 1.

    The act of expelling or letting go.

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)The material thus released.

    Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)

    a mucopurulent vaginal discharge

    the cooling tower's discharge

    Đồng nghĩa: effluent, effluence

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.

    negligent discharge

    Đồng nghĩa: firing

  4. 4.

    (countable, uncountable)The process of removing the load borne by something.

    Đồng nghĩa: unloading

  5. 5.

    (countable, uncountable)The process of flowing out.

    Đồng nghĩa: effluence

  6. 6.

    (countable, uncountable)(electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.

  7. 7.

    (countable, uncountable)(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).

  8. 8.

    (countable, uncountable)The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.

  9. 9.

    (countable, uncountable)(law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.

    After having granted discharge from liability, the general meeting of shareholders may not demand for the company compensation for matters which it had knowledge of when granting discharge.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

firelet goterminateaxecandecruitdehirediscardremovedismissdownsizegive the axegive someone the bootgive someone their cardsgive the chopgive the elbowgive someone the heave-hogive someone the old heave-holay offlet someone go

Cùng gốc / liên quan

undischargednondischargingdischargeabledischargeedischargementdischargerredischargeself-discharge

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (to unload), from discarricāre (unload). dis- charge.

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