What's the difference between detonate and discharge?

Detonate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.
  • (v. t.) To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Documentation referring to experiments testing a two-point detonation design are part of the evidence of nuclear weaponisation gathered by the IAEA and presented to Iran for its response.
  • (2) Mills said the operators' maps, which he copied, showed the mark was to be the site of a detonation.
  • (3) He believed that, even if Monis was paralysed, the explosive may have been connected to a “dead man’s switch” which would automatically detonate the bomb if the operator becomes incapacitated.
  • (4) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (5) It was wired with a mobile phone, most likely to act as a timer to detonate the device.
  • (6) Attaullah Khyogani, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said another seven people were injured in the attack, which began when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the consulate and ended with a gun battle between Afghan security forces and the militants.
  • (7) Visiting journalists were briefed by security officers on the latest attacks: five IEDs detonated or exploded in 48 hours; a car bomb discovered and detonated; and "a rash" of grenade attacks.
  • (8) A quick conversation was had about the potential for him to be drawing us into that stronghold and then detonating [a bomb] or killing the hostages or police as they entered.” The cafe manager, Tori Johnson, was executed by Monis 10 minutes later, prompting police to storm the cafe.
  • (9) That followed Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.
  • (10) In contrast, he says, a detonator could be built in a year, maybe less.
  • (11) News of the kidnapping came as Syria's state TV reported that a suicide attacker detonated his explosive vest in an unspecified government institution in Damascus, killing four and wounding 17.
  • (12) He also built mobile phone "detonators" that he supplied to undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaida terrorists and expressed his pleasure when told him they had been used to kill American soldiers in Iraq.
  • (13) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
  • (14) Refrain from detonating your little bomb,” one of the generals told the commander in charge of the test.
  • (15) In immediate terms, the detonation appears to have destroyed what remained of the six-party talks – the process whereby the US, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China had sought jointly to induce Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programme.
  • (16) Bombs containing B. anthracis spores were detonated on Gruinard island in 1942 and 1943 as a part of a British research programme set up in response to fears that the Germans were developing biological weapons.
  • (17) For Islamuh Ahmad, an elderly resident of Shadel Bazar – about two miles from the blast site – the Moab detonation meant that he could come home.
  • (18) PETN is used legally by the military and in industries such as mining, where it is used in detonation fuses.
  • (19) Mindblowing doesn't begin to cover it – Klangband detonated a thermonuclear device in my consciousness.
  • (20) Asiri is believed to have built the device his brother used in an abortive assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister and the underwear bomb a Nigerian man tried to detonate over the US in 2009.

Discharge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
  • (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
  • (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
  • (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
  • (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
  • (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
  • (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
  • (v. t.) To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
  • (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
  • (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
  • (v. t.) To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
  • (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
  • (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
  • (v. t.) The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
  • (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
  • (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
  • (v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
  • (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
  • (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
  • (v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
  • (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
  • (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
  • (2) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
  • (3) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).
  • (4) On the other hand, the limbic after-discharges to the hippocampal or amygdaloid stimulation were enhanced by Z. mioga as well as chlorpromazin, but they were inhibited by diazepam.
  • (5) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
  • (6) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (7) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (8) The records of 148 geriatric patients discharged from the Royal Ottawa Hospital over an 18-month period were studied.
  • (9) We conclude that neuronal activities in the region of the retrofacial nucleus are important both in the integration of stimuli from the central chemoreceptors and in defining the discharge patterns of respiratory neurons.
  • (10) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
  • (11) The present investigation has shown that the atrial receptors with a Paintal Type A pattern of discharge are relatively rare in both dogs and rabbits.
  • (12) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
  • (13) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
  • (14) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (15) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
  • (16) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
  • (17) Before discharge, subjects rated six out of the seven content areas as "important" for learning.
  • (18) Functional status on admission measured by the Katz ADL was the most powerful predictor of functional status at discharge.
  • (19) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
  • (20) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.