Sekirov Dictionary

discard

UK /ˈdɪskɑːd/US /ˈdɪskɑɹd/

noun 4
/dɪsˈkɑɹd/ verb 3
forms 5

noun4

Anything discarded.
•
One or more discarded playing cards in a card game.
- "Stroll across and see how the game is going," suggested Carrados. "Have a look at Crediton's discard and then come back." — 1923
The act of discarding.
•
A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
- Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables. — 2017

discard

UK /dɪsˈkɑːd/US /dɪsˈkɑɹd/

verb3

•
To throw away, to reject.
- A man discards the follies of boyhood. — 1832
To make a discard; to throw out a card.
•
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
- […] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen should be at an end of Her Patience, and resolve to discard them. — 1711

forms

discarded · discarding · discardeth · discards · discardest

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