From dis- + card.

• (verb)
  • (British) IPA: /dɪsˈkɑːd/, /dɪˈskɑːd/
  • (America) IPA: /dɪsˈkɑɹd/, /dɪˈskɑɹd/
• (noun)
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdɪskɑːd/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈdɪskɑɹd/

discard (discards, present participle discarding; simple past and past participle discarded)

1. (transitive) To throw away, to reject.

   Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, dismiss, dispose of, eliminate, get rid of, throw aside, throw away, throw down, Thesaurus:junk

   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC ↗:

     A man discards the follies of boyhood.

2. (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

   Synonyms: fire, let go, sack, Thesaurus:lay off

   • 1711 December 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Jonathan Swift], The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War, 4th edition, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC ↗, page 65 ↗:

     […] 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.

• French: rejeter, écarter
• German: verwerfen
• Portuguese: descartar
• Russian: отбра́сывать
• Spanish: desechar, descartar

• French: défausser
• German: abwerfen, ablegen

discard (plural discards)

1. Anything discarded.
2. A discarded playing card in a card game.
3. (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
   • 2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120:

     Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

• Russian: отхо́ды

• Russian: сброшенная карта