Discharging
[dis'tʃa:dʒiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discharge
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Examples
- But if this should lead to his discharging his Secretary, there would be a weak place made. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- With sensitive accumulators of this character hydraulic machinery is much used on board ships for steering them, and for loading, discharging and storing cargoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This device is known as an electromagnet, and the charging and discharging of such a magnet may, of course, be repeated indefinitely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was, indeed, too perfect, for the difficulty arose of discharging the electricity from the wire after the charge had passed through it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They proved capable of passing through sheets of aluminum and of copper, and of discharging electrified bodies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This pump is fixed on an axis, to which rapid rotary motion can be given; and it is fitted into a case connected with the pipe that conveys the water to the discharging orifice. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The want of a better mode of discharging the gun than a lighted match was one of the chief obstacles to the introduction of the Revolver four centuries ago. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- These actions are reversed when the charged cell is discharging itself. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thus the wheel is kept going, receiving at one side a charge of the melted wax and discharging at the other molded cylinders, which are afterwards turned true on the surface. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is certain that the skin has _imbibing_ as well as _discharging_ pores; witness the effects of a blistering-plaster, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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