discharge vs load

discharge

verb
  • 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 expel or let go. 

  • 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. 

load

verb
  • To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition. 

  • To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). 

  • To put runners on first, second and third bases 

  • To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. 

  • To provide in abundance. 

  • To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage. 

  • To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar. 

  • To receive a load. 

  • To be placed into storage or conveyance. 

  • To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance. 

  • to top up or purchase phone credits 

  • To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory. 

  • To be put into use in an apparatus. 

  • To put a load on something. 

  • To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way. 

  • To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc. 

  • To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory. 

  • To fill (an apparatus) with raw material. 

noun
  • The charge of powder for a firearm. 

  • A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind. 

  • A burden; a weight to be carried. 

  • The volume of work required to be performed. 

  • A unit of measure for various quantities. 

  • The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation. 

  • Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit. 

  • The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc. 

  • The viral load 

  • A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time. 

  • Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle 

  • Nonsense; rubbish. 

  • prepaid phone credit 

  • The electrical current or power delivered by a device. 

  • A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work. 

  • A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar. 

  • A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc. 

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