The difference between Discharge and Termination

When used as nouns, discharge means pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology, whereas termination means the process of terminating or the state of being terminated.


Discharge is also verb with the meaning: to accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

check bellow for the other definitions of Discharge and Termination

  1. Discharge as a verb:

    To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

  2. Discharge as a verb:

    To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.

  3. Discharge as a verb:

    To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

  4. Discharge as a verb:

    To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

  5. Discharge as a verb:

    To expel or let go.

  6. Discharge as a verb:

    To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

  7. Discharge as a verb (electricity):

    To release (an accumulated charge).

  8. Discharge as a verb (medicine):

    To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. To release (an inpatient) from hospital. To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.

  9. Discharge as a verb:

    To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

    Examples:

    "to discharge a prisoner"

  10. Discharge as a verb:

    To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

  11. Discharge as a verb:

    To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

  12. Discharge as a verb:

    To unload a ship or another means of transport.

  13. Discharge as a verb:

    To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

    Examples:

    "to discharge a cargo"

  14. Discharge as a verb:

    To give forth; to emit or send out.

    Examples:

    "A pipe discharges water."

  15. Discharge as a verb:

    To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

    Examples:

    "He discharged a horrible oath."

  16. Discharge as a verb (transitive, textiles):

    To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

    Examples:

    "to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background"

  17. Discharge as a verb (obsolete, Scotland):

    To prohibit; to forbid.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"

  1. Discharge as a noun (symptom, uncountable):

    Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.

  2. Discharge as a noun:

    The act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.

  3. Discharge as a noun:

    The act of expelling or letting go.

  4. Discharge as a noun:

    The process of unloading something.

  5. Discharge as a noun:

    The process of flowing out.

  6. Discharge as a noun (electricity):

    The act of releasing an accumulated charge.

  7. Discharge as a noun (medicine):

    The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.

  8. Discharge as a noun (military):

    The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.

  9. Discharge as a noun (hydrology):

    The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).

  1. Termination as a noun:

    The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.

  2. Termination as a noun:

    The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.

  3. Termination as a noun:

    An end in time; a conclusion.

  4. Termination as a noun:

    An end in space; an edge or limit.

  5. Termination as a noun:

    An outcome or result.

  6. Termination as a noun:

    The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.

  7. Termination as a noun (medical):

    An induced abortion.

  8. Termination as a noun (obsolete, rare):

    A word, a term.

  9. Termination as a noun:

    The ending up of a polypeptid chain.