To accomplish or complete, as an obligation. || To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. || To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one’s debt or obligation to. || To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. || To expel or let go. || To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. || (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge). || To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. || (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital. || (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service. || To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty. || To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling). || To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument. || To unload a ship or another means of transport. || To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled. || To give forth; to emit or send out. || To let fly; to give expression to; to utter. || (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process. || (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
Shawshank State Penitentiary would not discharge Andy Dufresne, who subsequently made his own plans to escape.
His conduct was so disorderly and improper, that I found it necessary to discharge him from the police force.
Tony decided not to discharge his firearm, fearing that he would give his position away to the enemy.
例句
Section 301(b), as noted above, requires that effluent limitations reflecting different levels of technology-BPT, BCT and BAT, depending upon the type of pollutant and the deadline for attainment-"shall be achieved" by dischargers
Section 301’s and 304’s definitions of BPT, BCT and BAT leave EPA with considerable discretion in establishing effluent limitations for different categories and classes of dischargers
It was denominated the Clean Water Act. EPA was authorized to grant case-by-case extensions of the 1977 BPT deadline to industrial dischargers which had attempted in good faith to comply
1.A device that releases nerve gas or other substances for military purposes.
‘Suddenly an armored van rolled up and troops ran out with automatic weapons and gas _dischargers_ .’
‘Electrically operated smoke grenade _dischargers_ are mounted either side of the turret in the forward firing position.’
2.A person or organization that allows industrial waste or other harmful substances to be released into the environment.
‘Water quality standards, therefore, focus on the overall water quality of a particular water body, unlike effluent limitations, which focus on particular kinds of _dischargers_ and the pollutants they discharge.’
‘As a favor to utility and coal industries, the country’s largest mercury _dischargers_ , the organisation sat for nine months on a report exposing the catastrophic impact on children’s health of mercury, finally releasing it in February 2003.’
3.A person or thing that discharges something.
‘Dharma also sells a color _discharger_ for removing dye from fabric.’
‘EPA believes that many water quality and ecosystem problems are best solved at the watershed level rather than at the individual water body or _discharger_ level.’
4.An apparatus for releasing or neutralizing an electric charge.
‘Commonly available R/C car battery _dischargers_ work on single packs of between 4 and 10 cells.’
‘Battery _dischargers_ are available that tell you what capacity is taken from the pack.’
形容词 变体/同根词
‘Suddenly an armored van rolled up and troops ran out with automatic weapons and gas _dischargers_ .’
