discard
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Is discard a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of discard?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To throw away, to reject.Examples: "A man discards the follies of boyhood."; "My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside."Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, dismiss, jettison, dispose of, eliminate, get rid of, throw asidetransitive
2. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.Examples: "Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables."
Definition source: Wiktionary