What's the difference between disard and discard?

Disard


Definition:

  • (n.) See Dizzard.

Example Sentences:

Discard


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
  • (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
  • (v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.
  • (v. i.) To make a discard.
  • (n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
  • (2) Aedes aegypti and Toxorhynchites splendens were found only in discarded tyres.
  • (3) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (4) This modern view of man and his world discards the traditional mechanistic paradigm which has been the focus of Western scientific thought and medicine.
  • (5) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
  • (6) Use of anti-HCV screening to prevent post-transfusion NANBH was compared with measurement of alanine aminotransferase concentrations: a corrected efficacy of 63% and 65%, a specificity of 93% and 64%, and a positive predictive value of 16.2% and 3.6% were found, respectively; 0.7% or 3.8% of blood donations, respectively, would be discarded.
  • (7) Previous or simultaneous superfusion with atropine does not modify Clx effects, thus a probable cholinergic mechanism of action for Clx is discarded.
  • (8) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
  • (9) Cells are obtained from fresh atrial tissue normally discarded after being removed to cannulate the right atrium during open heart surgery.
  • (10) Therefore we considered the hypothesis that during the purification of human menopausal gonadotrophin (hMG) some LH subunits or smaller immunoreactive fragments could have been discarded with the waste fractions.
  • (11) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.
  • (12) Worse, the CFL contains mercury, which according to the EU's own regulations cannot be discarded in ordinary waste, lest the mercury leach into the water supply.
  • (13) Discarding Green now as the team's first choice could have a profound effect on the West Ham goalkeeper's confidence, as well as his future career at this level, yet Capello's decision will be made purely for the benefit of the team.
  • (14) discarding the inactive fractions, since allergenicity exists in various fragments.
  • (15) Particular attention is paid to the autonomy-concept of nervous activity, a concept ofter forgotten, neglected or discarded from physiological thinking, although life of any kind, in any type of living system, can only be understood if spontaneous existence and activity are accepted for living matter.
  • (16) During analyses of alkali digested lung tissue for asbestos bodies, we observed that the number of asbestos bodies in the discarded waste frequently exceeded the number in the filtered residue, the number reported in the standard diagnostic method.
  • (17) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
  • (18) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
  • (19) They treat women like plates of food that can be consumed and discarded.
  • (20) Power fluctuations at frontal leads pointed to difficulties in interpreting interhemispheric EEG asymmetries in emotion research, if information on time dynamics is discarded.

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