What's the difference between discharge and mischarge?
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.
Mischarge
Definition:
(v. t.) To charge erroneously, as in account.
(n.) A mistake in charging.
Example Sentences:
(1) These interpretations have been extended to other mischarging systems: valylation of yeast tRNAPhE by yeast valyl-tRNA synthetase and mischarging of tRNAfMet and tRNA2Val from yeast by yeast phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase.
(2) The mutant enzymes mischarge supF tRNA(Tyr), with glutamine, to varying degrees depending on the polarity of the side chain introduced but apparently not depending on the size or shape of the side chain.
(3) In this paper, we screened temperature sensitive mutants of E. coli in which the mischarging suppression was abolished even at the permissive temperature.
(4) The mischarging sites in Su+2 glutamine tRNA locate in the newly detected region of tRNA, differing from the previous case of Su+3 tyrosine or Su+7 tryptophan tRNAs.
(5) However, in contrast to the wild-type tRNA(Asp) transcript, the 5' extended molecule presents a reduced capacity to be mischarged by arginyl-tRNA synthetase, suggesting the existence of different structural requirements in aspartyl- and arginyl-tRNA synthetases for tRNA(Asp) recognition.
(6) Although unmodified tRNA(Asp) is charged with aspartate as efficiently as the modified native tRNA, it is mischarged with arginine with considerably increased efficiency.
(7) Kinetic analysis of the mischarging revealed that dimethyl sulfoxide stimulated the misacylation by affecting the maximum velocity.
(8) One such error involves a mischarging step in which the aspartic acid side-chain beta-carboxyl group is linked to the tRNA(Asp) instead of the main chain alpha-carboxyl group.
(9) No lactonisation nor mischarged tRNALeu is detectable.
(10) It is shown that during the ATP pyrophosphatase reaction: (a) IRS forms an IRS-Val-AMP complex; (b) the turnover number of the ATP pyrophosphatase reaction is the same at the rate constant for the transfer of isoleucine from IRS-Ile-AMP to tRNAIle over a wide range of temperature and pH; (c) mischarged Val-tRNAIle is hydrolyzed by IRS with a turnover number of 10 s-1 at pH 7.78 and 25 degrees C, compared with a value of 1.2 s-1 for the transfer of isoleucine from IRS-Ile-AMP to tRNA or for the ATP pyrophosphatase reaction.
(11) The ternary complex containing the mischarged initiator tRNA fVal-tRNAfMet displays greater resistance to the IF-3-induced destabilization than the complex containing fVal-tRNAVal.
(12) In order to select the mischarging mutants of Su+2 glutamine tRNA, auxotrophic amber mutants of E. coli K12 which cannot be suppressed particularly by Su+2 were screened.
(13) This result contrasts with the reduced rates observed in tRNA mischarging, and suggests that the viral RNA could be easily aminoacylated in vivo.
(14) We conclude that the mutant tRNAs still accept mostly glutamine, but can accept tryptophan in an extent for mischarging suppression.
(15) The role of the anticodon and discriminator base in aminoacylation of tRNAs with tryptophan has been explored using a recently developed in vivo assay based on initiation of protein synthesis by mischarged mutants of the Escherichia coli initiator tRNA.
(16) Two of the methods utilize the mischarging ability of the synthetases under special conditions of low salt concentration and presence of organic solvents.
(17) Although the isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli (IRS) does not catalyze the overall mischarging of tRNAIle with valine, it does undergo the first step of the reaction, the formation of an IRS-Val-AMP complex.
(18) Mischarging of the activated CCA-halves of tRNASer1,2 (yeast) and tRNAPhe (yeast) with phenylalanine and serine, respectively, was not observed.
(19) The mutant, called glnS7, has an Asp----Asn change, and studies with the purified glnS7 gene product show it may mischarge a number of presumably different tRNAs.
(20) Furthermore, and as in correct systems, we found that during the mischarging of tRNAfMet one ATP is hydrolyzed per tRNA charged with valine.