[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/discharge/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) / discharge # discharge verb (discharge, discharges, discharged, discharging); noun (a discharge, discharges; discharge — uncountable) «discharge» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. (verb) To let someone leave officially, for example a patient from hospital or a soldier from the army. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#m1) 2. (verb) To let out a liquid, gas or electricity: The pipe discharges water into the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#m2) 3. (verb, formal) To do a duty fully: She discharged her duties well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#m3) 4. (verb) To fire a gun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#m4) 5. (noun) The act of letting someone go or letting something out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#m5) 6. (noun) Liquid that comes out of something, such as from a cut or the nose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#m6) ### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x1) - The factory must not discharge waste into the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x2) - A phone battery discharges as you use it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x3) - Lightning is a huge electric discharge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x4) - The officer discharged his duties with care. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x5) - The doctor looked at the discharge from the cut. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x6) - The soldier got his discharge from the army. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x7) - If a tank discharges 5 litres a minute, it loses 50 litres in 10 minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x8) - The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/#x9) ### 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. ## In Jewish tradition In Ecclesiastes it means release or relief from duty. Here it means to free oneself from a burden or obligation, and a release from service. **Interpretation.** Ecclesiastes says no one can escape death, and that no soldier gets a release from war. The one who fears God finds a way through all of life's demands. ### Examples - It is good that thou shouldest take hold of the one; yea, also from the other withdraw not thy hand; for he that feareth God shall discharge himself of them all. (Writings ECC.7.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x1) - There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it. (Writings ECC.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x2) ### 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. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «discharge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discharge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«discharge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/discharge.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «discharge» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«discharge» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/discharge.html) on Mova free.