Definition of discharge

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Discharge (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe..

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Disembogue :: Disembogue (v. i.) To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar..
Quitture :: Quitture (n.) A discharge; an issue.
Displode :: Displode (v. t.) To discharge; to explode.
Bescummer :: Bescummer (v. t.) To discharge ordure or dung upon.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo..
Thunder :: Thunder (n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
Disemboguement :: Disemboguement (n.) The act of disemboguing; discharge.
Quittance :: Quittance (v. t.) Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
Return :: Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information..
Embogue :: Embogue (v. i.) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river..
Expel :: Expel (v. t.) To discharge; to shoot.
Itinerancy :: Itinerancy (n.) A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty..
Resistance :: Resistance (n.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well..
Fulgurite :: Fulgurite (n.) A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge..
Unballast :: Unballast (v. t.) To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from.
Call :: Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..
Shot :: Shot (n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
Mission :: Mission (n.) Dismission; discharge from service.
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