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Discard

//dɪsˈkɑɹd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Anything discarded.
  2. 2
    getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable wordnet
  3. 3
    A discarded playing card in a card game.
  4. 4
    (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    anything that is cast aside or discarded wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To throw away, to reject. transitive

    "A man discards the follies of boyhood."

  2. 2
    throw or cast away wordnet
  3. 3
    To make a discard; to throw out a card. intransitive
  4. 4
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

Etymology 2

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

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