(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.
Unlearn
Definition:
(v. t.) To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of.
(v. t.) To fail to learn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(2) It is behaviour that is learned and it can be unlearned.
(3) The cannabinoids produce a variety of effects on unlearned behavior in different animal species.
(4) Just as Labour learned (and then unlearned) that economic credibility is a precondition of electoral victory, so the Tories grasped that they must be trusted as custodians of public services.
(5) We suggest that the learned features of oscine songbird vocalizations are controlled by a telencephalic pathway that acts in concert with other pathways responsible for simpler, unlearned vocalizations.
(6) The preference for the proper face stimulus by infants who had not seen a real face prior to testing suggests that an unlearned or "evolved" responsiveness to faces may be present in human neonates.
(7) Similarly, studies which assess responding to cues thought to signal drug use in the natural environment (e.g., the sight of someone injecting heroin) have not adequately assessed whether such cues have unconditioned (unlearned) effects.
(8) John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor , has persuaded most of the world’s rock star economists – Mazzucato herself, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz and more – to go on tour with him around the UK to get the voters to #unlearn Labour.
(9) This process of unlearning retards the learning of the new contingency.
(10) Overall, findings suggest unlearned pecking preferences for short and long wavelengths, with minimums at green.
(11) Livingstone, who is a member of the NEC, tweeted: The Guardian view on Labour: grudges nursed, lessons unlearned | Editorial Read more Livingstone said that if Fisher was being suspended, the party should also take action against the MPs Simon Danczuk and Frank Field.
(12) Teaching is often delegated to junior house staff and early bad habits are difficult to unlearn in post-graduate training.
(13) #Unlearn is a smart way of selling the idea of a change of direction.
(14) (1) Overregularization errors are relatively rare (median 2.5% of irregular past tense forms), suggesting that there is no qualitative defect in children's grammars that must be unlearned.
(15) Hence, so long as they were unlearning these customs gradually and by the way, as one may say, under careful watching, they were not disturbed by the change in their manner of life, and were becoming different without knowing it."
(16) It is concluded that cerebral cortex plays an important role in the regulation of unlearned, innate activities with the overall behaviour of the organism.
(17) These results imply that organized visual perception is an unlearned capacity of the human organism.
(18) Those "dumb spots" resulting from unlearned theory, especially in those areas where psychoanalysis is widening its scope of diagnostic categories, age range, and socioeconomic status, are not considered countertransference errors.
(19) There are few careful studies of the effects of solvents on unlearned animal behavior during acute exposure, despite the importance of the prevention of acute behavioral or neurological effects in the workplace.
(20) These experiments were conducted to determine (1) whether dorsal and ventral ascending spinal pathways can each mediate unlearned supraspinal nocifensive responses of cats to noxious thermal stimuli and (2) whether interrupting the spinal projection of supraspinal monoaminergic neurons alters the excitability and natural modulation of these responses.