discard

名词 n. 动词 v.
/dɪsˈkɑːd/|/dɪˈskɑːd/    /dɪsˈkɑɹd/|/dɪˈskɑɹd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything discarded.
  2. One or more discarded playing cards in a card game.
    — "Stroll across and see how the game is going," suggested Carrados. "Have a look at Crediton's discard and then come back."
  3. The act of discarding.
    — Spinola was hovering about the external fittings of the figure with unusual fussiness. When at length he released the left hand it seemed for an almost perceptible moment that the action hung. Then the arm descended and carried out the discard.
  4. A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
    — Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.
动词 v.
  1. To throw away, to reject. transitive
    — A man discards the follies of boyhood.
  2. To make a discard; to throw out a card. intransitive
  3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
    — […] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.

词形变化

discards present,singular,third-person discarding participle,present discarded participle,past discarded past discards plural

词源

词源 1
From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.
词源 2
From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.
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