discard
IPA: dɪskˈɑrd
noun
- Anything discarded.
- A discarded playing card in a card game.
- (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
verb
- (transitive) To throw away, to reject.
- (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
- To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
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Examples of "discard" in Sentences
- The boy went to discard the body.
- The other people discarded bulrush.
- The rest of the matrix is discarded.
- They discarded the value of denudation.
- I discarded provender in a garbage bag.
- The paper was discarded in the garbage can.
- The unwanted part of the image is discarded.
- The men discarded the lyrics of the dithyramb.
- The distillate is rectified and water discarded.
- The fractional part of the division is discarded.
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