Definition: 1. Complete or carry out. 2. Pour forth or release. 3. The sudden giving off of energy. 4. The act of venting. 5. A substance that is emitted or released.
Use 'discharge' in a sentence:
1. Discharge of raw sewage into the sea is unsanitary and unsafe.
2. The bird had trouble breathing and was discharging blood from the nostrils.
3. He was given a dishonourable discharge.
4. In the early 1960s, researchers tried firing rockets trailing wires into thunderclouds to set up an easy discharge path for the huge electric charges that these clouds generate.
5. On her day of discharge, we shared in her delight at her recovery.
6. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing.
7. He was doing experiments in a gas discharge tube.
8. He has a broken nose but may be discharged today.
9. Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.
10. Five days later Henry discharged himself from hospital.
11. Lightning is the discharge of electricity from clouds.
12. Husband: I am going to discharge our chauffeur. Four times recently he almost killed me.
13. I've come to go through the discharge formalities.
14. She recovered, though slowly, and was ready for discharge after four weeks.
15. The government should take extreme measures against illegal industrial waste-water discharge.
16. You are being discharged on medical grounds.
17. He discharged himself from hospital against the advice of doctors.
18. The resulting salty water will be discharged at sea.
19. Shall we have a talk on the port of discharge this afternoon?
20. After the child had been treated, and was being prepared for discharge, Dr. Myer talked to the parents about how they should care for the child at home.
21. All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty.
22. There should be greater treatment of sewage before it is discharged.
23. Here is the gas discharge tube.
24. One possibility he says is that tears discharge certain chemicals from your body, chemicals that build up during stress.
25. The sewers discharge out at sea.
26. The idea of forcing storm clouds to discharge their lightning on command is not new.
27. The sewers collected sewage and storm runoff and discharged it, untreated, into the harbour.
28. He added that he had warned McLaughlin that three preventable accidents in one year could lead to his discharge, as indeed it should.
29. The goods will be sold for a fraction of their value in order to discharge the debt.
30. Sometimes a normal vaginal discharge can irritate the skin.
31. Herring suggested that different modes of sensation, such as pain, taste, and color, might be correlated with the discharge of specific kinds of nervous energy.
32. The day of discharge is not chargeable if rooms are vacated by 12:00 noon.
33. The factory was fined for discharging chemicals into the river.
34. In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.
35. Estimates suggest that for every cubic meter of vent discharge, 350 milligrams of particulate organic material would be advected into the vent area.
36. He received an honourable discharge from the army.
37. All discharges and disposals of radioactive waste from Springfields were within relevant limits.
38. From day 23 onward the vessel was in port discharge.
39. He was conditionally discharged after admitting the theft.
40. The system is composed of industrial PC, DMC300 motion controller, discharge status checking card, A/D card, I/O card and pulse power.
41. The boiler discharged steam.
42. Patients were being discharged from the hospital too early.
43. By 1950, the results of attempts to relate brain processes to mental experience appeared rather correlated with the discharge of specific kinds of nervous energy.
44. He was discharged from the army following his injury.
45. The river is diverted through the power station before discharging into the sea.
46. There was a watery discharge from her ear.
47. Writing is a good tool for discharging overwhelming feelings.
48. He was found guilty and given a conditional discharge.
49. He was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay Miss Smith $500 compensation.
50. Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges.
51. Lightning is a brilliant flash of light produced by an electrical discharge from a storm cloud.
52. Franklin's experiments showed that the lightning is an electrical discharge.
53. They develop a fever and a watery discharge from their eyes.
54. She had discharged herself against medical advice.
55. She was discharged from the police force for bad conduct.
