Definition of discard in English:

discard

verb dɪˈskɑːddɪˈskɑrd

[with object]

1Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable.
抛弃，丢弃
Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded
希拉里把她不要的衣服捆了起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- To prevent people from discarding garbage on the elevated highway, the taxi company has begun providing a garbage bag in every car.
- Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc.
- That never-ending task of discarding the detritus netted by too many impulse buys had me going through a pile of books today.
- The next time you go out shopping, you can discard the plastic carry bag and arm yourself with a jute bag instead.
- Earlier this year, the council proposed to hit people who discard gum on the city streets with £50 on-the-spot fines.
- Once there, he dumped the tea, and pulled out a bottle, discarding the cap into the trash before returning to the couch.
- When they stop being useful, we must be prepared to discard them.
- Young people discard drink cans, sweep wrappers, carrier bags, on to the streets, and if anyone objects they are subjected to a barrage of foul language.
- Before eating it, she proceeded to break off the outer sides, discarding them on the ground at her feet, notwithstanding the fact there was a litter bin nearby.
- Leave overnight to drip through, then remove the jelly bag, discard the contents and leave to soak in cold water while you finish the jelly.
- If you find damage, cut off, bag, and discard infested leaves.
- I wish they would discard their cigarettes properly instead of just dropping them on the ground.
- One day, he discovers a hole beneath a piece of seemingly discarded tin roofing at an abandoned farmhouse.
- If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them.
- The local Council is trying to clamp down on people who discard litter around towns and in the countryside.
- Like monkeys, which abandon their babies that fall from their grip, this particular goose variety discards the eggs that are handled by humans and thereafter does not sit on them.
- I agree that some people will always just discard their empties wherever they happen to be, but the provision of more bins must be a step in the right direction.
- Strain, reserving the milk but discarding the garlic and thyme, and mash, adding the cream and milk until fluffy - you may not need all the milk.
- Rather than wait for bills to pile up, open the mail the day it comes, and shred or discard junk mail immediately.
- Whether it was her intent to consume the salad or discard it in the trash was not established.
Synonyms
dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out
reject, jettison, scrap, dispense with, cast aside/off, repudiate, abandon, relinquish, drop, have done with, shed, slough off, shrug off, throw on the scrapheap
informal chuck (away/out), fling away, dump, ditch, axe, bin, junk, get shut of
British informal get shot of
North American informal trash
archaic forsake
1. 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play (a card that is neither of the suit led nor a trump), when one is unable to follow suit.
  （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌）
  West led a heart and East was able to discard his club loser
  Example sentencesExamples
  A player who cannot follow suit is free to trump the trick or discard an unwanted card.
  The dealer creates a Discard pile by discarding the top card of the deck face up.
  If you drew just the top card of the discard pile you must discard a different card.
  After discarding eight cards, the starter leads to the first trick.
  The same penalty is payable by the declarer if the wrong number of cards were discarded.

noun ˈdɪskɑːdˈdɪsˌkɑrd

1A thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable.
抛弃，丢弃
Example sentencesExamples
- While our relationship with most of our material life is ephemeral, the discards of that life will last forever.
- Caught by bottom-trawling, which causes damage to the seabed, and is part of a complex mixed fishery (like cod), and so discards are a problem.
- But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards.
- The discards of one age often become the treasures of another!
- Some estimates suggest that as many as 900,000 young salmon are being killed by mackerel and herring fleets in the North Sea only to be dumped over the side as by-catch discards.
- The industry is advocating an alternative policy based on technical conservation measures, closed areas, reduction of discards and strict but even handed enforcement.
- With the growth of the fast-food industry in the past three decades, it has become even more difficult to estimate the waste portion or discard of deep-frying fats.
- ‘It has shown a lot of potential in reducing discards, whilst at the same time maintaining good quantities of prawns and we will looking at using the design on our boats on a permanent basis,’ he said.
- Slowly but surely, carry bags made of newspapers and cloth discards as well as coconut-shell cups and spoons are gaining a toehold in the resort.
- The rays and sharks are abundant here, feeding on discards made by commercial fishermen.
- But who owns the discards, the shards that have never been seen, the throw-aways that have been converted into new forms with original content?
- So anyway, we'll need to go through the boxes of discards in order to cross them off our list.
- The books are a combination of library discards and donations by the public.
- Self-help groups have been put on intensive training to make various products from bamboo and other materials that normally end up as garbage discards.
- Most of the players, though, were discards from the other two provinces.
- He has found his images in dumpsters and recycling bins, or friends who knew he was actively collecting photographic discards had given them to him.
- Firms telephone him to offer their discards and truck them to his work site.
- I'll probably end up getting all of the above discards at some later date, but I just keep telling myself it's not the absolute expenditure that counts, it's the spreading out.
- We need to ask people to direct these discards into separate containers.
- They have enacted measures to force boats to use larger net sizes which would reduce discards by 70%.
Synonyms
substandard article, discard, second
1. 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) a card played which is neither of the suit led nor a trump, when one is unable to follow suit.
  （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌）
  Example sentencesExamples
  If 2 or more players play discards to a trick that are the same denomination, suits come into play.
  The discards may include some or all of the same cards that were picked up from the stock.
  This may be done with a discard or by playing all of your cards on other players.
  If this happens while more than one player requires cards, all the discards are shuffled to form a new stock to deal from.
  Ace discards are displayed separately from the central discard pile, so that all can see how many Aces have appeared.

Derivatives

discardable

adjective dɪsˈkɑːdəb(ə)l

A mark can also be used on discardable packaging, advertisements and trade literature.
Example sentencesExamples
- The evenings probably weren't all that unlike the other readings, except that the material was probably more instantly accessible, and, arguably, discardable.
- But essentially if something has no impact whatsoever on your existence and there is no way of proving its existence, then it's discardable in all ethical and philosophical terms.
- Just because you don't fall into this particular line, or know a few exceptions personally, doesn't mean it's completely discardable.
- He took the bottle back off me, carefully screwing the top back on and placing it, pointlessly empty and discardable into his jacket pocket.

Origin

Late 16th century (originally in the sense 'reject (a playing card')): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card¹.

card from Late Middle English:
A medieval word that comes via French carte from Latin charta ‘papyrus leaf or paper’, the source of chart (late 16th century), and charter (Middle English). Its first recorded sense was ‘playing card’, source of many expressions we use today. To have a card up your sleeve is to have a plan or asset that you are keeping secret until you need it. If someone holds all the cards in a situation, they are in a very strong position, just like a card player who has a hand guaranteed to win. Someone who is secretive and cautious about their plans or activities might be said to be keeping their cards close to their chest. The image here is of a card player trying to prevent the other players from looking at their hand. If you play your cards right you make the best use of your assets and opportunities to ensure you get what you want, whereas to lay your cards on the table is to be completely open and honest in saying what your intentions are. Rather different from the above expressions is on the cards (in the US, in the cards), meaning ‘possible or likely’. The cards being referred to here are ones used for fortune-telling.
In Britain a person unlucky enough to get or be given their cards is sacked from their job. The cards referred to are the National Insurance details and other documents that were formerly retained by the employer during a person's employment. A politician who is said to play the race card exploits the issue of race or racism for their own ends. The expression originates in a letter written by Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–95) in 1886 on the question of Irish Home Rule. Referring to the Orange Order of Protestant Loyalists, he said that ‘the Orange card would be the one to play’.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) was fond of using card in the sense ‘an odd or eccentric person’, and his Sketches by Boz (1836) provides the first written use. It comes from sure card, meaning a person who was sure to succeed. Discard (late 16th century) was originally used in relation to rejecting a playing card.

Definition of discard in US English:

discard

verbdiˈskärddɪˈskɑrd

[with object]

1Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable.
抛弃，丢弃
Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded
希拉里把她不要的衣服捆了起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- Leave overnight to drip through, then remove the jelly bag, discard the contents and leave to soak in cold water while you finish the jelly.
- Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc.
- To prevent people from discarding garbage on the elevated highway, the taxi company has begun providing a garbage bag in every car.
- Before eating it, she proceeded to break off the outer sides, discarding them on the ground at her feet, notwithstanding the fact there was a litter bin nearby.
- If you find damage, cut off, bag, and discard infested leaves.
- Strain, reserving the milk but discarding the garlic and thyme, and mash, adding the cream and milk until fluffy - you may not need all the milk.
- The next time you go out shopping, you can discard the plastic carry bag and arm yourself with a jute bag instead.
- One day, he discovers a hole beneath a piece of seemingly discarded tin roofing at an abandoned farmhouse.
- The local Council is trying to clamp down on people who discard litter around towns and in the countryside.
- That never-ending task of discarding the detritus netted by too many impulse buys had me going through a pile of books today.
- Like monkeys, which abandon their babies that fall from their grip, this particular goose variety discards the eggs that are handled by humans and thereafter does not sit on them.
- When they stop being useful, we must be prepared to discard them.
- Once there, he dumped the tea, and pulled out a bottle, discarding the cap into the trash before returning to the couch.
- Whether it was her intent to consume the salad or discard it in the trash was not established.
- I wish they would discard their cigarettes properly instead of just dropping them on the ground.
- Earlier this year, the council proposed to hit people who discard gum on the city streets with £50 on-the-spot fines.
- Young people discard drink cans, sweep wrappers, carrier bags, on to the streets, and if anyone objects they are subjected to a barrage of foul language.
- If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them.
- Rather than wait for bills to pile up, open the mail the day it comes, and shred or discard junk mail immediately.
- I agree that some people will always just discard their empties wherever they happen to be, but the provision of more bins must be a step in the right direction.
Synonyms
dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out
1. 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play (a card that is neither of the suit led nor a trump), when one is unable to follow suit.
  （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌）
  Example sentencesExamples
  A player who cannot follow suit is free to trump the trick or discard an unwanted card.
  The dealer creates a Discard pile by discarding the top card of the deck face up.
  After discarding eight cards, the starter leads to the first trick.
  If you drew just the top card of the discard pile you must discard a different card.
  The same penalty is payable by the declarer if the wrong number of cards were discarded.

nounˈdɪsˌkɑrdˈdisˌkärd

1A person or thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable.
抛弃，丢弃
Example sentencesExamples
- The discards of one age often become the treasures of another!
- They have enacted measures to force boats to use larger net sizes which would reduce discards by 70%.
- Most of the players, though, were discards from the other two provinces.
- Some estimates suggest that as many as 900,000 young salmon are being killed by mackerel and herring fleets in the North Sea only to be dumped over the side as by-catch discards.
- But who owns the discards, the shards that have never been seen, the throw-aways that have been converted into new forms with original content?
- Caught by bottom-trawling, which causes damage to the seabed, and is part of a complex mixed fishery (like cod), and so discards are a problem.
- Firms telephone him to offer their discards and truck them to his work site.
- He has found his images in dumpsters and recycling bins, or friends who knew he was actively collecting photographic discards had given them to him.
- With the growth of the fast-food industry in the past three decades, it has become even more difficult to estimate the waste portion or discard of deep-frying fats.
- The industry is advocating an alternative policy based on technical conservation measures, closed areas, reduction of discards and strict but even handed enforcement.
- I'll probably end up getting all of the above discards at some later date, but I just keep telling myself it's not the absolute expenditure that counts, it's the spreading out.
- Self-help groups have been put on intensive training to make various products from bamboo and other materials that normally end up as garbage discards.
- The rays and sharks are abundant here, feeding on discards made by commercial fishermen.
- ‘It has shown a lot of potential in reducing discards, whilst at the same time maintaining good quantities of prawns and we will looking at using the design on our boats on a permanent basis,’ he said.
- While our relationship with most of our material life is ephemeral, the discards of that life will last forever.
- But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards.
- Slowly but surely, carry bags made of newspapers and cloth discards as well as coconut-shell cups and spoons are gaining a toehold in the resort.
- So anyway, we'll need to go through the boxes of discards in order to cross them off our list.
- The books are a combination of library discards and donations by the public.
- We need to ask people to direct these discards into separate containers.
Synonyms
substandard article, discard, second
1. 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) a card played which is neither of the suit led nor a trump, when one is unable to follow suit.
  （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌）
  Example sentencesExamples
  If 2 or more players play discards to a trick that are the same denomination, suits come into play.
  This may be done with a discard or by playing all of your cards on other players.
  If this happens while more than one player requires cards, all the discards are shuffled to form a new stock to deal from.
  The discards may include some or all of the same cards that were picked up from the stock.
  Ace discards are displayed separately from the central discard pile, so that all can see how many Aces have appeared.

Origin

Late 16th century (originally in the sense ‘reject (a playing card’)): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card.

单词	discard
释义	Definition of discard in English: discard verb dɪˈskɑːddɪˈskɑrd [with object] 1Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable. 抛弃，丢弃 Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded 希拉里把她不要的衣服捆了起来。 Example sentencesExamples To prevent people from discarding garbage on the elevated highway, the taxi company has begun providing a garbage bag in every car. Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc. That never-ending task of discarding the detritus netted by too many impulse buys had me going through a pile of books today. The next time you go out shopping, you can discard the plastic carry bag and arm yourself with a jute bag instead. Earlier this year, the council proposed to hit people who discard gum on the city streets with £50 on-the-spot fines. Once there, he dumped the tea, and pulled out a bottle, discarding the cap into the trash before returning to the couch. When they stop being useful, we must be prepared to discard them. Young people discard drink cans, sweep wrappers, carrier bags, on to the streets, and if anyone objects they are subjected to a barrage of foul language. Before eating it, she proceeded to break off the outer sides, discarding them on the ground at her feet, notwithstanding the fact there was a litter bin nearby. Leave overnight to drip through, then remove the jelly bag, discard the contents and leave to soak in cold water while you finish the jelly. If you find damage, cut off, bag, and discard infested leaves. I wish they would discard their cigarettes properly instead of just dropping them on the ground. One day, he discovers a hole beneath a piece of seemingly discarded tin roofing at an abandoned farmhouse. If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them. The local Council is trying to clamp down on people who discard litter around towns and in the countryside. Like monkeys, which abandon their babies that fall from their grip, this particular goose variety discards the eggs that are handled by humans and thereafter does not sit on them. I agree that some people will always just discard their empties wherever they happen to be, but the provision of more bins must be a step in the right direction. Strain, reserving the milk but discarding the garlic and thyme, and mash, adding the cream and milk until fluffy - you may not need all the milk. Rather than wait for bills to pile up, open the mail the day it comes, and shred or discard junk mail immediately. Whether it was her intent to consume the salad or discard it in the trash was not established. Synonyms dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out reject, jettison, scrap, dispense with, cast aside/off, repudiate, abandon, relinquish, drop, have done with, shed, slough off, shrug off, throw on the scrapheap informal chuck (away/out), fling away, dump, ditch, axe, bin, junk, get shut of British informal get shot of North American informal trash archaic forsake 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play (a card that is neither of the suit led nor a trump), when one is unable to follow suit. （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌） West led a heart and East was able to discard his club loser Example sentencesExamples A player who cannot follow suit is free to trump the trick or discard an unwanted card. The dealer creates a Discard pile by discarding the top card of the deck face up. If you drew just the top card of the discard pile you must discard a different card. After discarding eight cards, the starter leads to the first trick. The same penalty is payable by the declarer if the wrong number of cards were discarded. noun ˈdɪskɑːdˈdɪsˌkɑrd 1A thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable. 抛弃，丢弃 Example sentencesExamples While our relationship with most of our material life is ephemeral, the discards of that life will last forever. Caught by bottom-trawling, which causes damage to the seabed, and is part of a complex mixed fishery (like cod), and so discards are a problem. But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards. The discards of one age often become the treasures of another! Some estimates suggest that as many as 900,000 young salmon are being killed by mackerel and herring fleets in the North Sea only to be dumped over the side as by-catch discards. The industry is advocating an alternative policy based on technical conservation measures, closed areas, reduction of discards and strict but even handed enforcement. With the growth of the fast-food industry in the past three decades, it has become even more difficult to estimate the waste portion or discard of deep-frying fats. ‘It has shown a lot of potential in reducing discards, whilst at the same time maintaining good quantities of prawns and we will looking at using the design on our boats on a permanent basis,’ he said. Slowly but surely, carry bags made of newspapers and cloth discards as well as coconut-shell cups and spoons are gaining a toehold in the resort. The rays and sharks are abundant here, feeding on discards made by commercial fishermen. But who owns the discards, the shards that have never been seen, the throw-aways that have been converted into new forms with original content? So anyway, we'll need to go through the boxes of discards in order to cross them off our list. The books are a combination of library discards and donations by the public. Self-help groups have been put on intensive training to make various products from bamboo and other materials that normally end up as garbage discards. Most of the players, though, were discards from the other two provinces. He has found his images in dumpsters and recycling bins, or friends who knew he was actively collecting photographic discards had given them to him. Firms telephone him to offer their discards and truck them to his work site. I'll probably end up getting all of the above discards at some later date, but I just keep telling myself it's not the absolute expenditure that counts, it's the spreading out. We need to ask people to direct these discards into separate containers. They have enacted measures to force boats to use larger net sizes which would reduce discards by 70%. Synonyms substandard article, discard, second 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) a card played which is neither of the suit led nor a trump, when one is unable to follow suit. （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌） Example sentencesExamples If 2 or more players play discards to a trick that are the same denomination, suits come into play. The discards may include some or all of the same cards that were picked up from the stock. This may be done with a discard or by playing all of your cards on other players. If this happens while more than one player requires cards, all the discards are shuffled to form a new stock to deal from. Ace discards are displayed separately from the central discard pile, so that all can see how many Aces have appeared. Derivatives discardable adjective dɪsˈkɑːdəb(ə)l A mark can also be used on discardable packaging, advertisements and trade literature. Example sentencesExamples The evenings probably weren't all that unlike the other readings, except that the material was probably more instantly accessible, and, arguably, discardable. But essentially if something has no impact whatsoever on your existence and there is no way of proving its existence, then it's discardable in all ethical and philosophical terms. Just because you don't fall into this particular line, or know a few exceptions personally, doesn't mean it's completely discardable. He took the bottle back off me, carefully screwing the top back on and placing it, pointlessly empty and discardable into his jacket pocket. Origin Late 16th century (originally in the sense 'reject (a playing card')): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card¹. card from Late Middle English: A medieval word that comes via French carte from Latin charta ‘papyrus leaf or paper’, the source of chart (late 16th century), and charter (Middle English). Its first recorded sense was ‘playing card’, source of many expressions we use today. To have a card up your sleeve is to have a plan or asset that you are keeping secret until you need it. If someone holds all the cards in a situation, they are in a very strong position, just like a card player who has a hand guaranteed to win. Someone who is secretive and cautious about their plans or activities might be said to be keeping their cards close to their chest. The image here is of a card player trying to prevent the other players from looking at their hand. If you play your cards right you make the best use of your assets and opportunities to ensure you get what you want, whereas to lay your cards on the table is to be completely open and honest in saying what your intentions are. Rather different from the above expressions is on the cards (in the US, in the cards), meaning ‘possible or likely’. The cards being referred to here are ones used for fortune-telling. In Britain a person unlucky enough to get or be given their cards is sacked from their job. The cards referred to are the National Insurance details and other documents that were formerly retained by the employer during a person's employment. A politician who is said to play the race card exploits the issue of race or racism for their own ends. The expression originates in a letter written by Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–95) in 1886 on the question of Irish Home Rule. Referring to the Orange Order of Protestant Loyalists, he said that ‘the Orange card would be the one to play’. Charles Dickens (1812–70) was fond of using card in the sense ‘an odd or eccentric person’, and his Sketches by Boz (1836) provides the first written use. It comes from sure card, meaning a person who was sure to succeed. Discard (late 16th century) was originally used in relation to rejecting a playing card. Definition of discard in US English: discard verbdiˈskärddɪˈskɑrd [with object] 1Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable. 抛弃，丢弃 Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded 希拉里把她不要的衣服捆了起来。 Example sentencesExamples Leave overnight to drip through, then remove the jelly bag, discard the contents and leave to soak in cold water while you finish the jelly. Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc. To prevent people from discarding garbage on the elevated highway, the taxi company has begun providing a garbage bag in every car. Before eating it, she proceeded to break off the outer sides, discarding them on the ground at her feet, notwithstanding the fact there was a litter bin nearby. If you find damage, cut off, bag, and discard infested leaves. Strain, reserving the milk but discarding the garlic and thyme, and mash, adding the cream and milk until fluffy - you may not need all the milk. The next time you go out shopping, you can discard the plastic carry bag and arm yourself with a jute bag instead. One day, he discovers a hole beneath a piece of seemingly discarded tin roofing at an abandoned farmhouse. The local Council is trying to clamp down on people who discard litter around towns and in the countryside. That never-ending task of discarding the detritus netted by too many impulse buys had me going through a pile of books today. Like monkeys, which abandon their babies that fall from their grip, this particular goose variety discards the eggs that are handled by humans and thereafter does not sit on them. When they stop being useful, we must be prepared to discard them. Once there, he dumped the tea, and pulled out a bottle, discarding the cap into the trash before returning to the couch. Whether it was her intent to consume the salad or discard it in the trash was not established. I wish they would discard their cigarettes properly instead of just dropping them on the ground. Earlier this year, the council proposed to hit people who discard gum on the city streets with £50 on-the-spot fines. Young people discard drink cans, sweep wrappers, carrier bags, on to the streets, and if anyone objects they are subjected to a barrage of foul language. If this week's insights aren't useful, discard them. Rather than wait for bills to pile up, open the mail the day it comes, and shred or discard junk mail immediately. I agree that some people will always just discard their empties wherever they happen to be, but the provision of more bins must be a step in the right direction. Synonyms dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play (a card that is neither of the suit led nor a trump), when one is unable to follow suit. （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌） Example sentencesExamples A player who cannot follow suit is free to trump the trick or discard an unwanted card. The dealer creates a Discard pile by discarding the top card of the deck face up. After discarding eight cards, the starter leads to the first trick. If you drew just the top card of the discard pile you must discard a different card. The same penalty is payable by the declarer if the wrong number of cards were discarded. nounˈdɪsˌkɑrdˈdisˌkärd 1A person or thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable. 抛弃，丢弃 Example sentencesExamples The discards of one age often become the treasures of another! They have enacted measures to force boats to use larger net sizes which would reduce discards by 70%. Most of the players, though, were discards from the other two provinces. Some estimates suggest that as many as 900,000 young salmon are being killed by mackerel and herring fleets in the North Sea only to be dumped over the side as by-catch discards. But who owns the discards, the shards that have never been seen, the throw-aways that have been converted into new forms with original content? Caught by bottom-trawling, which causes damage to the seabed, and is part of a complex mixed fishery (like cod), and so discards are a problem. Firms telephone him to offer their discards and truck them to his work site. He has found his images in dumpsters and recycling bins, or friends who knew he was actively collecting photographic discards had given them to him. With the growth of the fast-food industry in the past three decades, it has become even more difficult to estimate the waste portion or discard of deep-frying fats. The industry is advocating an alternative policy based on technical conservation measures, closed areas, reduction of discards and strict but even handed enforcement. I'll probably end up getting all of the above discards at some later date, but I just keep telling myself it's not the absolute expenditure that counts, it's the spreading out. Self-help groups have been put on intensive training to make various products from bamboo and other materials that normally end up as garbage discards. The rays and sharks are abundant here, feeding on discards made by commercial fishermen. ‘It has shown a lot of potential in reducing discards, whilst at the same time maintaining good quantities of prawns and we will looking at using the design on our boats on a permanent basis,’ he said. While our relationship with most of our material life is ephemeral, the discards of that life will last forever. But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards. Slowly but surely, carry bags made of newspapers and cloth discards as well as coconut-shell cups and spoons are gaining a toehold in the resort. So anyway, we'll need to go through the boxes of discards in order to cross them off our list. The books are a combination of library discards and donations by the public. We need to ask people to direct these discards into separate containers. Synonyms substandard article, discard, second 1.1 (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) a card played which is neither of the suit led nor a trump, when one is unable to follow suit. （在桥牌、惠特斯和其他类似牌类运动中）垫牌（在不能跟着出同样花色牌时打出不同花色的牌或无用的牌） Example sentencesExamples If 2 or more players play discards to a trick that are the same denomination, suits come into play. This may be done with a discard or by playing all of your cards on other players. If this happens while more than one player requires cards, all the discards are shuffled to form a new stock to deal from. The discards may include some or all of the same cards that were picked up from the stock. Ace discards are displayed separately from the central discard pile, so that all can see how many Aces have appeared. Origin Late 16th century (originally in the sense ‘reject (a playing card’)): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card.
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