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Discard

//dɪsˈkɑɹd//

Definitions

1
To throw away, to reject.
A man discards the follies of boyhood.
Similar
cast aside cast away dismiss
2
To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3
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.
Similar
fire let go sack

1
Anything discarded.
2
A discarded playing card in a card game.
3
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.

Word Origin

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

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//dɪsˈkɑɹd//

1
To throw away, to reject.
A man discards the follies of boyhood.
Similar
cast aside cast away dismiss
2
To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3
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.
Similar
fire let go sack

1
Anything discarded.
2
A discarded playing card in a card game.
3
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.

Word Origin

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

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Translations

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