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# discharge

«discharge» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To let someone leave officially, for example a patient…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (discharge, discharges, discharged, discharging); noun (a discharge, discharges; discharge — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To let someone leave officially, for example a patient from hospital or a soldier from the army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#m1)

2) (verb) To let out a liquid, gas or electricity: The pipe discharges water into the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#m2)

3) (verb, formal) To do a duty fully: She discharged her duties well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#m3)

4) (verb) To fire a gun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#m4)

5) (noun) The act of letting someone go or letting something out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#m5)

6) (noun) Liquid that comes out of something, such as from a cut or the nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Ecclesiastes it means release or relief from duty. Here it means to free oneself from a burden or obligation, and a release from service. Interpretation: Ecclesiastes says no one can escape death, and that no soldier gets a release from war. The one who fears God finds a way through all of life's demands. In the primary lessons: In science a battery discharges when it loses its stored electricity, and lightning is an electric discharge; in health lessons patients are discharged from hospital; in the exam voice «discharge a duty» means to carry it out. Phrases: «be discharged from hospital», «discharge a battery», «electric discharge», «discharge into the sea».

### examples

- It is good that thou shouldest take hold of the one; yea, also from the other withdraw not thy hand; for he that feareth God shall discharge himself of them all. (Writings ECC.7.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x1)
- There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it. (Writings ECC.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x2)
- Grandad was discharged from hospital after two days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x3)
- The factory must not discharge waste into the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x4)
- A phone battery discharges as you use it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x5)
- Lightning is a huge electric discharge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x6)
- The officer discharged his duties with care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x7)
- The doctor looked at the discharge from the cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x8)
- The soldier got his discharge from the army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x9)
- If a tank discharges 5 litres a minute, it loses 50 litres in 10 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x10)
- The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/#x11)

### note

Stress: verb «dis-CHARGE», noun often «DIS-charge». The opposite of «charge» for batteries. «Discharge» from a job can mean being dismissed. In maths, «discharges 5 litres a minute» is a rate of loss: subtract, and multiply by the minutes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «discharge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/discharge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.