discard

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dis- +‎ card. Compare Spanish descartar.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (verb)
    • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkɑːd/
    • (file)
    • (US) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkɑɹd/
  • (noun)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Verb[edit]

discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)

  1. (transitive) To throw away, to reject.
    Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, dismiss, dispose of, eliminate, get rid of, throw aside, throw away, throw down; see also Thesaurus:junk
    • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. [], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
      A man discards the follies of boyhood.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
      My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
  2. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
  3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
    Synonyms: fire, let go, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off

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Noun[edit]

discard (plural discards)

  1. Anything discarded.
  2. A discarded playing card in a card game.
  3. (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
    • 2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120:
      Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

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