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11discard — [v] get rid of abandon, abdicate, abjure, adios*, banish, can*, cancel, cashier, cast aside, chuck, deep six*, desert, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, dispossess, ditch, divorce, do away with, drop, dump, eject, eliminate, expel, forsake,… …
12discard — ► VERB ▪ get rid of as no longer useful or desirable. ► NOUN ▪ a discarded item. DERIVATIVES discardable adjective. ORIGIN originally in the sense «reject (a playing card)»; from DIS (Cf. ↑dis ) + CARD(Cf. ↑ …
13DISCARD — The DISCARD protocol is an Internet protocol defined in RFC 863. It is intended for testing and measurement purposes.A host may send data to a host that supports the DISCARD protocol, on either TCP or UDP port 9. Everything sent to the server is… …
14discard — 01. In one year, the hotels here in town [discard] 70,000 kilograms of little bars of soap. 02. From time to time, as crabs grow, their shells become too small, and must be [discarded]. They then have a new soft shell underneath which slowly… …
15discard — I. verb Date: circa 1586 transitive verb 1. to get rid of especially as useless or unwanted < a pile of discarded tires > 2. a. to remove (a playing card) from one s hand b. to play (any card except a trump) from a suit different from the one led …
16Discard EP — Infobox Album | Name = Discard Type = EP Artist = Figurine Released = May 2002 Format = CD, 12 Recorded = Genre = Electronic Length = Label = 555 Records Producer = David Figurine James Figurine Reviews = Last album = IMpossible (2001) This album …
17discard — UK [dɪsˈkɑː(r)d] / US [dɪsˈkɑrd] verb [transitive] Word forms discard : present tense I/you/we/they discard he/she/it discards present participle discarding past tense discarded past participle discarded to get rid of something that you no longer …
18discard — discardable, adj. discarder, n. v. /di skahrd /; n. /dis kahrd/, v.t. 1. to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat. 2. Cards. a. to throw out (a card or cards) from one s hand. b. to play (a card, not a trump, of a different… …
19discard — verb ADVERB ▪ completely, entirely ▪ These ideas have now been completely discarded. ▪ largely ▪ quickly ▪ Rose quickly discarded the idea …
20discard — dis|card1 [dısˈka:d US a:rd] v [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: dis + CARD15] 1.) [T] to get rid of something = ↑throw away ▪ Discard any old cleaning materials. ▪ discarded paper 2.) [I and T] to put down unwanted cards in a card game discard 2 …
