discharge vs go

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. 

go

verb
  • To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) 

  • To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) 

  • To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. 

  • To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) 

  • To be spent or used up. 

  • To belong (somewhere). 

  • To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). 

  • To make the (specified) sound. 

  • To fit. 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To tend (toward a result). 

  • To be lost. 

  • To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. 

  • I woke up just before the clock went. 

  • To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. 

  • Let's go halves on this. 

  • Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way 

  • To continuously or habitually be in a state. 

  • I went at him with a knife. 

  • To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group. 

  • To enjoy. (Compare go for.) 

  • To attend. 

  • To be sold. 

  • To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. 

  • Synonyms: become, turn, change into 

  • To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. 

  • To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). 

  • To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) 

  • To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). 

  • To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. 

  • To sound; to make a noise. 

  • To leave; to move away. 

  • To extend (from one point in time or space to another). 

  • To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). 

  • To come to (a certain condition or state). 

  • To start; to begin (an action or process). 

  • To work (through or over), especially mentally. 

  • Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate 

  • To attack. 

  • To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) 

  • To date. 

  • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. 

  • Synonyms: function, work, operate 

  • To break down or decay. 

  • To be accepted. 

  • We've only gone twenty miles today. 

  • To be valid. 

  • To have a certain record. 

  • To take a turn, especially in a game. 

  • To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). 

  • To be out. 

  • To resort (to). 

  • To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). 

  • To yield or weigh. 

  • Those babies go five tons apiece. 

  • To be discarded or disposed of. 

  • To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). 

  • To lead (to a place); to give access to. 

  • To be expressed or composed (a certain way). 

  • Anything goes around here. 

  • Why don’t you go with us? 

  • Let's go this way for a while. 

  • To fight or attack. 

  • How long can you go without water? 

  • To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. 

  • To proceed (especially to do something foolish). 

  • To collapse or give way, to break apart. 

  • Expressing encouragement or approval. 

  • To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) 

  • To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) 

  • To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. 

  • To die. 

  • To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). 

  • To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. 

  • To travel or pass along. 

  • To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. 

adj
  • Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. 

noun
  • A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). 

  • An attempt, a try. 

  • An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. 

  • Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. 

  • The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. 

  • An act; the working or operation. 

  • A period of activity. 

  • Synonym: green light 

  • A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters. 

  • Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try 

  • The act of going. 

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