discard vs ruminate

discard

verb
  • To throw away, to reject. 

  • To make a discard; to throw out a card. 

  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. 

noun
  • A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. 

  • Anything discarded. 

  • A discarded playing card in a card game. 

ruminate

adj
  • Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. 

verb
  • To meditate or reflect. 

  • To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. 

  • To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen. 

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