discharge vs fold

discharge

verb
  • To expel or let go. 

  • To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling). 

  • To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. 

  • To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. 

  • To release (an accumulated charge). 

  • To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty. 

  • To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. 

  • To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear. 

  • To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument. 

  • To unload a ship or another means of transport. 

  • To give forth; to emit or send out. 

  • To release (an inpatient) from hospital. 

  • To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled. 

  • To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. 

  • To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process. 

  • To release (a member of the armed forces) from service. 

  • To accomplish or complete, as an obligation. 

  • To let fly; to give expression to; to utter. 

noun
  • The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second). 

  • The process of flowing out. 

  • The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm. 

  • Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology. 

  • The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance. 

  • The act of expelling or letting go. 

  • The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital. 

  • The act of releasing an accumulated charge. 

  • The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service. 

  • The process of unloading something. 

fold

verb
  • To withdraw or quit in general. 

  • To stir gently, with a folding action. 

  • To fall over; to be crushed. 

  • To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. 

  • To give way on a point or in an argument. 

  • To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold). 

  • To become folded; to form folds. 

  • To withdraw from betting. 

  • To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands. 

  • To cover or wrap up; to conceal. 

  • To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. 

  • To confine animals in a fold. 

  • Of a company, to cease to trade. 

noun
  • A group of sheep or goats. 

  • A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability. 

  • Home, family. 

  • A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ. 

  • An act of folding. 

  • That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace. 

  • The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold. 

  • A bend or crease. 

  • Any correct move in origami. 

  • A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. 

  • The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold. 

  • In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value. 

  • A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together. 

  • The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation. 

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