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discharge

discharge

27 4.4
Liquid or other matter that comes out of something, often as waste
  • noun
  • /dɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ/
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  • Symptoms consistent with trichomoniasis (vaginal discharge, odor, or pruritus) were reported by 77% of women.
  • pollutant discharge
  • waste discharge
  • industrial discharges

Yet women expressed that this discharge was normal to their nature as women.

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Examples

  • Vaginal discharge is really any fluid that is not your period that leaves the vagina is discharged from the vagina.

  • And then probably the biggest source is discharge from wastewater treatment plants.

  • The good news is that no eye discharge for any of them, nor nose one.

  • Yet women expressed that this discharge was normal to their nature as women.

  • The two boys saved the discharge and put it in a jar.

  • I found an infectious discharge.

  • One of its by-products was the discharge of hot water, which my wife used for the laundry.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • As a result of river discharge, there is little submerged vegetation due to high turbidity.

    Academic text (1999)
  • She's been suffering from an abnormal vaginal discharge.

  • The scientist collected samples of the chemical discharge from the factory to analyze its effects on the environment.

Synonyms

emission
vsdischarge
198 4.6

A substance like gas or smoke that is released into the air

is wider and covers any substance coming out, including wastes from bodies
excrement
vsdischarge
  • NSFW
26 6.1

Waste that leaves the body, such as poop

is the general word for substances coming out, not limited to feces
excretion
vsdischarge
  • Specialized
1 6.4

Waste left by the body, like urine or feces

is a general term for substances that come out of anything, not only bodies
excretory product
vsdischarge
  • Specialized
6.1

A waste that the body gets rid of like urine or sweat

is the broader name for substances coming out of anything, not only bodies

Antonyms

input
  • Specialized
42 3.9

A resource used to make goods or provide services

intake
  • Specialized
7 3.5

The act of breathing air into the lungs

Compounds

7 4.2

An official release from the military when someone leaves with a good record

6 6.7

Official removal from the military because of a serious crime or bad behavior

electrical discharge
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A sudden flow of electricity that makes a spark or flash

A fluid that comes from the vagina, usually clear or white

discharge lamp
  • Specialized
1 6.7

A lamp that makes light when electricity passes between two metal points inside a gas

discharge pipe
  • Specialized
1 3.8

A pipe that carries water or waste away from a building

electric discharge
  • Specialized
1 5.2

A flow of electricity through a gas that makes light or a spark

brush discharge
  • Specialized
9.9

A faint blue electric glow with many thin light rays that appears when high voltage makes a spark

corona discharge
  • Specialized
7.9

A faint glow around a high-voltage wire when the air becomes charged

7.0

A lamp that makes light by passing electricity between two metal parts inside a glass tube

gas-discharge lamp
  • Specialized
5.8

A lamp that makes light when electricity passes through gas in a glass tube

gas-discharge tube
  • Specialized
5.4

A sealed tube where electricity makes the gas inside glow

How Much

outflow
  • Specialized
13 4.6
discharge
27 4.4
spill
103 1.0
leak
290 1.0
seepage
7 5.7

Surface Forms

discharge singular
discharges plural

Morphology

discharge = discharge (semi-transparent) = dis + charge

This noun is a straightforward conversion from the verb meaning 'something discharged' or 'the act of discharging'.

Etymology

Discharge (the noun) grew from the idea of what is 'let out' when you unload something, so the word came to mean the liquid or material that comes out, like a wound or factory waste.