Discard
[dɪ'skɑːd] or [dɪs'kɑrd]
Definition
(noun.) getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable.
(noun.) (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit.
(noun.) anything that is cast aside or discarded.
(verb.) throw or cast away; 'Put away your worries'.
Edited by Abraham--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
(v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
(v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.
(v. i.) To make a discard.
(n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1].Reject, throw or thrust aside, throw away, cast away, lay aside, cast off.[2].Dismiss, discharge, cashier, break, cast off, turn away.
Inputed by Kelly
Definition
v.t. and v.i. to throw away as not needed or not allowed by the game said of cards: in whist to throw down a (useless) card of another suit when one cannot follow suit and cannot or will not trump: to cast off: to discharge: to reject.—n. the act of discarding: the card or cards thrown out of the hand.—n. Discard′ment.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Besides; if you are not filial, sir, if you discard that duty, you are at least--hum--not a Christian? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For animal fibers it is therefore necessary to discard chlorine as a bleaching agent, and to substitute a substance which will have a less disastrous action upon the fibers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And in doing this they were compelled to discard the precious values of art, religion and social life of which this superfluous energy is the creator. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You must discard the word Fancy altogether. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But afterwards you can discard what you do not believe in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It has been said that Edison's scrap-heap contains the elements of a liberal education, and this was essentially true of the discard during the ore-milling experience. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He discarded the original porte-rule and type of the transmitter for the key or lever, moved up and down by hand to complete or break the circuit. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The hollow part at the base of the tusk must also be discarded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The chalk telephone was finally discarded in favor of the Bell receiver--the latter being more simple and cheaper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After that the other mines of Great Britain discarded the old expensive Newcomen engine, and sent in orders for Watt’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In 1827 he discarded the use of silver salts, and employed a resin known as Bitumen of Judea (asphaltum). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The early breech-loaders had been discarded, as it was not known how to make the breech gas-tight, and the explosions rendered the guns more dangerous to their users than to the enemy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And so much the worse grudge I owe him, for interfering and setting my discarded men against me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This I follow up to its legitimate conclusion, discarding the others, and usually get what I am after. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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