discard

From dis- +‎ card.

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɑːd/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɑɹd/
• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskɑːd/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)

1. (transitive) to throw away, to reject.
   • I. Taylor

     A man discards the follies of boyhood.

2. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
   • Jonathan Swift

     They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should […] resolve to discard them.

• cast away
• dismiss
• dispose
• eliminate
• get rid of
• throw away
• See also Thesaurus:junk

discard (plural discards)

1. Anything discarded.
2. A discarded playing card in a card game.
3. (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
   • 2017, Andrew Troelsen, ‎Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core (page 120)

     Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

• discard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• discard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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