Discharge vs. Drainage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Discharge and Drainage
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Discharge
To release, as from confinement, care, or duty
Discharge a patient.
Discharge a soldier.
Drainage
Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area with excess of water. The internal drainage of most agricultural soils is good enough to prevent severe waterlogging (anaerobic conditions that harm root growth), but many soils need artificial drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.
Discharge
To let go; empty out
A train discharging commuters.
Drainage
The action or a method of draining.
Discharge
To pour forth; emit
A vent discharging steam.
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Drainage
A system of drains.
Discharge
To shoot
Discharge a pistol.
Drainage
Something that is drained off.
Discharge
To remove from office or employment.
Drainage
(Medicine) The removal of fluid or purulent material from a wound or body cavity.
Discharge
To perform the obligations or demands of (an office, duty, or task).
Drainage
A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
Discharge
To comply with the terms of (a debt or promise, for example).
Drainage
A system of drains.
Discharge
(Law) To release from debt, as in bankruptcy.
Drainage
A downward wind.
Discharge
To remove (color) from cloth, as by chemical bleaching.
Drainage
A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
Discharge
(Electricity) To cause the release of stored energy or electric charge from (a battery, for example).
Drainage
The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
Discharge
To apportion (weight) evenly, as over a door.
Drainage
The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
Discharge
To relieve (a part) of excess weight by distribution of pressure.
Drainage
Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.
Discharge
To clear the record of the loan of (a returned library book).
Drainage
The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.
Discharge
To relieve (a ship, for example) of a burden or of contents; unload.
Drainage
Emptying accomplished by draining
Discharge
To unload or empty (contents).
Discharge
To go off; fire
The musket discharged loudly.
Discharge
To pour forth, emit, or release contents.
Discharge
To become blurred, as a color or dye; run.
Discharge
To undergo the release of stored energy or electric charge.
Discharge
To get rid of a burden, load, or weight.
Discharge
The act of shooting or firing a projectile or weapon.
Discharge
A flowing out or pouring forth; emission; secretion
A discharge of pus.
Discharge
The amount or rate of emission or ejection.
Discharge
Something that is discharged, released, emitted, or excreted
A watery discharge.
Discharge
The act or an instance of removing an obligation, burden, or responsibility.
Discharge
Fulfillment of the terms of something, such as a debt or promise.
Discharge
Performance, as of an office or duty.
Discharge
Dismissal or release from employment, service, care, or confinement.
Discharge
An official document certifying such release, especially from military service.
Discharge
Release of stored energy in a capacitor by the flow of current between its terminals.
Discharge
Conversion of chemical energy to electric energy in a storage battery.
Discharge
A flow of electricity in a dielectric, especially in a rarefied gas.
Discharge
Elimination of net electric charge from a charged body.
Discharge
The act of removing a load or burden.
Discharge
To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
Discharge
To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
Discharge
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
Discharge
To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
Discharge
To expel or let go.
Discharge
To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
Discharge
(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
Discharge
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
Discharge
(medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
Discharge
(military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
Discharge
To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
To discharge a prisoner
Discharge
To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
Discharge
(logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
Discharge
To unload a ship or another means of transport.
Discharge
To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
To discharge a cargo
Discharge
To give forth; to emit or send out.
A pipe discharges water.
Discharge
To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
He discharged a horrible oath.
Discharge
To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
To discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
Discharge
To prohibit; to forbid.
Discharge
Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
Discharge
The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
Discharge
The act of expelling or letting go.
Discharge
The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
Discharge
The process of unloading something.
Discharge
The process of flowing out.
Discharge
(electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
Discharge
(medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
Discharge
(military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
Discharge
(hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).
Discharge
To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
Discharge
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.
The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.
Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
Discharge
To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
Discharged of business, void of strife.
In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.
Discharge
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
Discharge the common sortWith pay and thanks.
Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see.
Discharge
To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
Discharge
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.
Discharge
To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
Discharge
To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
We say such an order was "discharged on appeal."
The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.
Discharge
To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so largeAs could their hundred offices discharge.
Discharge
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
If he hadThe present money to discharge the Jew.
Discharge
To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
Discharge
To prohibit; to forbid.
Discharge
To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process; as, to discharge the color from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark ground.
Discharge
To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge.
Discharge
The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
Discharge
Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
Discharge
Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
Discharge
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Indefatigable in the discharge of business.
Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties.
Discharge
Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
Discharge
Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
Discharge
The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
Too secure of our dischargeFrom penalty.
Discharge
That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
Death, who sets all free,Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge.
Discharge
A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.
The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge.
Discharge
The equalization of a difference of electric potential between two points. The character of the discharge is mostly determined by the nature of the medium through which it takes place, the amount of the difference of potential, and the form of the terminal conductors on which the difference exists. The discharge may be alternating, continuous, brush, connective, disruptive, glow, oscillatory, stratified, etc.
Discharge
The sudden giving off of energy
Discharge
The act of venting
Discharge
A substance that is emitted or released
Discharge
Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body;
The discharge of pus
Discharge
Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
Discharge
The pouring forth of a fluid
Discharge
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Discharge
A formal written statement of relinquishment
Discharge
The act of discharging a gun
Discharge
Complete or carry out;
Discharge one's duties
Discharge
Pour forth or release;
Discharge liquids
Discharge
Eliminate (substances) from the body
Discharge
Free from obligations or duties
Discharge
Remove the charge from
Discharge
Go off or discharge;
The gun fired
Discharge
Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges;
The suspect was cleared of the murder charges
Discharge
Leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;
Discharge
Cause to go off;
Fire a gun
Fire a bullet
Discharge
Release from military service
Discharge
Become empty or void of its content;
The room emptied
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