discharge vs strip

discharge

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

strip

noun
  • The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. 

  • The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. 

  • Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. 

  • The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters. 

  • A strip steak. 

  • The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters. 

  • A trough for washing ore. 

  • An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle. 

  • A landing strip. 

  • A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. 

  • A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. 

  • A comic strip. 

  • A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities. 

  • A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule. 

verb
  • To perform a striptease. 

  • To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.) 

  • To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation. 

  • To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling. 

  • To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing). 

  • To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule. 

  • To pare off the surface of (land) in strips. 

  • To remove the insulation from a wire/cable. 

  • To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands". 

  • To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 

  • To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). 

  • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color. 

  • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. 

  • To remove cargo from (a container). 

  • To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 

  • To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit). 

  • To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. 

  • To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel. 

  • To take off clothing. 

  • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. 

  • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. 

  • To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk. 

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