discharge
part of speech
verb (discharge, discharges, discharged, discharging); noun (a discharge, discharges; discharge — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) (verb) To let someone leave officially, for example a patient from hospital or a soldier from the army. tree →
2) (verb) To let out a liquid, gas or electricity: The pipe discharges water into the river. tree →
3) (verb, formal) To do a duty fully: She discharged her duties well. tree →
4) (verb) To fire a gun. tree →
5) (noun) The act of letting someone go or letting something out. tree →
6) (noun) Liquid that comes out of something, such as from a cut or the nose. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science a battery discharges when it loses its stored electricity, and lightning is an electric discharge; in health lessons patients are discharged from hospital; in the exam voice «discharge a duty» means to carry it out. Phrases: «be discharged from hospital», «discharge a battery», «electric discharge», «discharge into the sea».
examples
- Grandad was discharged from hospital after two days. tree →
- The factory must not discharge waste into the river. tree →
- A phone battery discharges as you use it. tree →
- Lightning is a huge electric discharge. tree →
- The officer discharged his duties with care. tree →
- The doctor looked at the discharge from the cut. tree →
- The soldier got his discharge from the army. tree →
- If a tank discharges 5 litres a minute, it loses 50 litres in 10 minutes. tree →
- The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function. tree →
note
Stress: verb «dis-CHARGE», noun often «DIS-charge». The opposite of «charge» for batteries. «Discharge» from a job can mean being dismissed. In maths, «discharges 5 litres a minute» is a rate of loss: subtract, and multiply by the minutes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «discharge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.