Definition of Discard

Discard

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.

To put or thrust away; to reject.

To make a discard.

The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

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Discard Quotations

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
Ang Lee

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Nora Roberts

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
Alex Campbell

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Ludwig von Mises

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
Stanley Fish

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
James Gunn

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Discard Translations

discard in Dutch is afdanken
discard in German is ablegen, streichen
discard in Italian is deporre
discard in Portuguese is descarte
discard in Spanish is desecho, desconectar
discard in Swedish is kassera, kasta bort

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