discard
dis·card (dis kärd′; for n. dis′kärd′)
transitive verb
- Card Games
- to remove (a card or cards) from one's hand
- to play (a card not a trump and not in the suit led) when holding no cards in the suit led
- to throw away, abandon, or get rid of as no longer valuable or useful
Etymology: OFr descarter, prob. < des- + carte: see dis- & card
intransitive verb
Card Games to make a discard
noun
- a discarding or being discarded
- something discarded
- Card Games the card or cards discarded
discard
v.
Object
- needle: Needle disposal To report discarded needles & gain advice about safe disposal of needles.
- syringe: Members of the public and employees may come into contact with discarded syringes and needles.
- marinade: Remove the lamb pieces from the bag and discard the marinade.
- cigarette: The fire is believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette.
- stalk: Strain off the liquid from the casserole and discard the parsley stalks, orange zest and bay leaf.
- packet: A machine that runs out of memory will discard incoming packets.
Preposition: as
- waste: It is not possible to say whether any particular substance, in any particular circumstance is discarded as waste.
Adjective complement
- inaudible: Each reform has would leave billions new generation vehicle encoders discard inaudible.
Modifying Another Word
- carelessly: A carelessly discarded match, a chip pan left unattended.
- silently: Any data sent to the input stream side of the socket is acknowledged and then silently discarded.
- casually: Once the bookmarks were finished, I didn't want to casually discard the book simply because there were 100+ holes in its pages.
- lightly: Nevertheless, these obligations should not be discarded lightly.
- routinely: Once routinely discarded along with the placenta and considered a waste product, it has been used in more than 6,000 transplants worldwide.
- safely: They should be used once only and then discarded safely.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- along: The concept of the mise en scene was discarded along with a certain knowledge about cinema which concerned its esthetic aspects.
Used with why or when
- when: Whether the pass was intentional or not does not come into the offside calculation - and should be discarded when offside decisions are made.
- what: Fasting derives in part from a desire to abstain from something temporarily - not to discard what is seen to be useless.
Preposition: in
- favor: Weak alternatives are discarded in favor of strong ones.
Preposition: of
- fish: These measures aim to reduce the level of discarding of undersized fish or non-target species.
Preposition: upon
- reset: Note that if you implement sequential local procedures, all of the revisions are discarded upon reset.
Browse dictionary entries near discard
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