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third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded
(transitive) To throw away, to reject. quotations examples
A man discards the follies of boyhood.
1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball
My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68
(intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card. examples
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. quotations examples
[…] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.
1711 December 8, published 1711, page 65
plural discards
Anything discarded. examples
A discarded playing card in a card game. examples
(programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. quotations examples
Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.
2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120