Discard

Quick meaning: Discard is a verb meaning (transitive) To throw away, to reject.

Meaning

(transitive) To throw away, to reject.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
2. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
3. Anything discarded.
4. One or more discarded playing cards in a card game.
5. The act of discarding.
6. (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.

Example Sentences

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

"Stroll across and see how the game is going," suggested Carrados. "Have a look at Crediton's discard and then come back."

Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

[…] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.

Word Forms

• discards
• discarding
• discarded

Synonyms for discard

Depending on context, synonyms include dismiss, jettison, eliminate, throw away, throw down, junk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include throw away, throw out, dispose, toss, fling, dispel.

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